{"id":"CVE-2022-43995","details":"Sudo 1.8.0 through 1.9.12, with the crypt() password backend, contains a plugins/sudoers/auth/passwd.c array-out-of-bounds error that can result in a heap-based buffer over-read. This can be triggered by arbitrary local users with access to Sudo by entering a password of seven characters or fewer. The impact could vary depending on the system libraries, compiler, and processor architecture.","modified":"2026-04-16T00:03:03.948778710Z","published":"2022-11-02T14:15:16.187Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2022:3886-1","SUSE-SU-2022:3938-1","SUSE-SU-2022:4001-1","SUSE-SU-2022:4077-1","SUSE-SU-2022:4240-1","SUSE-SU-2022:4280-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:12483-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2139911"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/bd209b9f16fcd1270c13db27ae3329c677d48050"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465707"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-08"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2139911"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/bd209b9f16fcd1270c13db27ae3329c677d48050"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/millert/sudo","events":[{"introduced":"4333b06914558093a327ee445699c479a57933a4"},{"fixed":"c684bf08307b3270a62f2130bafb37c36aa3c99e"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-43995.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"}]}