Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.92
EPSS Ranking 99.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.2
Proposed Action
Sudo contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows for privilege escalation.