Vulnerability CVE-2022-42717


Published: 2022-10-11   Modified: 2022-10-12

Description:
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.

 References:
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-23-vagrant-nfs-sudoers-configuration-allows-for-local-privilege-escalation/45423
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/pull/12910
https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders/nfs

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