Security Resilience

CVE-2023-42465

Sudo Project Sudo ≤ 1.9.15

Public PoC
Published
22 December 2023
Modified
04 November 2025
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.0
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0054 44th percentile
Risk Priority 52 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-42465 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Sudo Project Sudo. Its CVSS base score is 7.0 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 44th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Sudo before 1.9.15 might allow row hammer attacks (for authentication bypass or privilege escalation) because application logic sometimes is based on not equaling an error value (instead of equaling a success value), and because the values do not resist flips…

more

of a single bit.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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Affected Assets

sudo project
sudo
≤ 1.9.15

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References