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CVE-2023-28486

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-03-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-116

Description

Sudo before 1.9.13 does not escape control characters in log messages.

Affected products

• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
• sudo: before 1.9.13 — fixed in 1.9.13

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: sudo 1.9.13. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/334daf92b31b79ce68ed75e2ee14fca265f029ca
• https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/releases/tag/SUDO_1_9_13
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/02/msg00002.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-12
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230420-0002/
• https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/334daf92b31b79ce68ed75e2ee14fca265f029ca
• https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/releases/tag/SUDO_1_9_13
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/02/msg00002.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-12
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230420-0002/

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