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high 7.5

CVE-2019-19232 json

In Sudo through 1.8.29, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can impersonate a nonexistent user by invoking sudo with a nu…

published 2019-12-19 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-8858

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Sudo through 1.8.29, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can impersonate a nonexistent user by invoking sudo with a numeric uid that is not associated with any user. NOTE: The software maintainer believes that this is not a vulnerability because running a command via sudo as a user not present in the local password database is an intentional feature. Because this behavior surprised some users, sudo 1.8.30 introduced an option to enable/disable this behavior with the default being disabled. However, this does not change the fact that sudo was behaving as intended, and as documented, in earlier versions

Patch / fix

  • sudo Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.8.31-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19232

  • sudo Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1.8.31-1ubuntu1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19232

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • sudo RHEL 8 1.8.29-5.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:1804

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-19232 updated cvss 7.5

sudo: attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can impersonate a nonexistent user

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 sudo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 sudo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 sudo
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) sudo 1.8.29-5.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:1804

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Sources

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