An issue was discovered in Hashicorp Packer before 2.3.1. The recommended sudoers configuration for Vagrant on Linux is insecure. If the host has been configured according to this documentation, non-privileged users on the host can leverage a wildcard in the sudoers configuration to execute arbitrary commands as root.
History

Tue, 20 May 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-284
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-10-11T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-20T14:12:42.637Z

Reserved: 2022-10-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-42717

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:10:41.393Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-11T23:15:10.237

Modified: 2025-05-20T15:15:51.453

Link: CVE-2022-42717

cve-icon Redhat

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