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1 vulnerability found for sudo by sudo-project

CVE-2026-82474 (GCVE-0-2026-82474)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-29 16:35
Modified
2026-08-29 16:35
CWE
  • CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
Summary
Sudo through 1.9.17p2 fails to apply intercept policy checks to the execveat system call in ptrace-based intercept mode. Users permitted to run specific commands can execute denied programs by calling execveat directly or through fexecve, bypassing policy enforcement and logging.
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