Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Amazon Linux AMI and sudo - CVE-2024-31969
Published: August 6, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU95409
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-31969
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to improperly imposed security restrictions in sudo. A local user with an entry in the sudoers file, enabling them to run commands as another unprivileged user, can leverage it to run commands as root.
Affected software
Amazon Linux AMI
sudo
sudo
How to mitigate CVE-2024-31969
Install updates from vendor's website.
sudo - update to 1.8.23-10.59