CVE-2019-19234
In Sudo through 1.8.29, the fact that a user has been blocked (e.g., by using the ! character in the shadow file instead of a password hash) is not considered, allowing an attacker (who has access to a Runas ALL sudoer account) to impersonate any blocked user. NOTE: The software maintainer believes that this CVE is not valid. Disabling local password authentication for a user is not the same as disabling all access to that user--the user may still be able to login via other means (ssh key, kerberos, etc). Both the Linux shadow(5) and passwd(1) manuals are clear on this.
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Indeed it is a valid use case to have local accounts that are _only_ accessible via sudo and that cannot be logged into with a password. Sudo 1.8.30 added an optional setting to check the _shell_ of the target user (not the encrypted password!) against the contents of /etc/shells but that is not the same thing as preventing access to users with an invalid password hash
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Puntuación base: 7.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 3.17%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 88
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
Referencias
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-19234
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I6TKF36KOQUVJNBHSVJFA7BU3CCEYD2F/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IY6DZ7WMDKU4ZDML6MJLDAPG42B5WVUC/
- https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs58104
- https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs58473
- https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs58772
- https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs58812
- https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs58979
- https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs60748
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200103-0004/
- https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=cve&on=view&id=CVE-2019-19234
- https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=defects&on=view&id=LIN1018-5505
- https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=defects&on=view&id=LIN1019-3816
- https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Warnmeldungen/DE/CB/2019/12/warnmeldung_cb-k20-0001.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/bulletinapr2020.html
- https://www.sudo.ws/devel.html#1.8.30b2
- https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19234/
- https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/132985
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-19234
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I6TKF36KOQUVJNBHSVJFA7BU3CCEYD2F/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IY6DZ7WMDKU4ZDML6MJLDAPG42B5WVUC/
- https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs58104
- https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs58473
- https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs58772
- https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs58812
- https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs58979
- https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs60748
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200103-0004/
- https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=cve&on=view&id=CVE-2019-19234
- https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=defects&on=view&id=LIN1018-5505
- https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=defects&on=view&id=LIN1019-3816
- https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Warnmeldungen/DE/CB/2019/12/warnmeldung_cb-k20-0001.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/bulletinapr2020.html
- https://www.sudo.ws/devel.html#1.8.30b2
- https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19234/
- https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/132985
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