CVE-2022-42717

Published: Oct 11, 2022

Modified: May 20, 2025

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/pull/12910

https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders/nfs

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-23-vagrant-nfs-sudoers-configuration-allows-for-local-privilege-escalation/45423

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CVE-2022-42717

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