CVE-2023-28487

Publication date 16 March 2023

Last updated 18 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Sudo before 1.9.13 does not escape control characters in sudoreplay output.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
sudo	25.10 questing	Fixed 1.9.13p1-1ubuntu2
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 1.9.13p1-1ubuntu2
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 1.9.13p1-1ubuntu2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.9.13p1-1ubuntu2
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 1.9.13p1-1ubuntu2
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 1.9.13p1-1ubuntu2
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 1.9.11p3-1ubuntu1.3
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.9.9-1ubuntu2.4
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.8.31-1ubuntu1.5
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.8.21p2-3ubuntu1.6
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.8.16-0ubuntu1.10+esm2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable

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Notes

mdeslaur

same commit as CVE-2023-28486

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
sudo	Upstream: 334daf9

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N