{"id":"CVE-2019-19232","details":"In Sudo through 1.8.29, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can impersonate a nonexistent user by invoking sudo with a numeric uid that is not associated with any user. NOTE: The software maintainer believes that this is not a vulnerability because running a command via sudo as a user not present in the local password database is an intentional feature. Because this behavior surprised some users, sudo 1.8.30 introduced an option to enable/disable this behavior with the default being disabled. However, this does not change the fact that sudo was behaving as intended, and as documented, in earlier versions","modified":"2026-04-16T04:43:03.412930271Z","published":"2019-12-19T21:15:13.730Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Mar/31"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I6TKF36KOQUVJNBHSVJFA7BU3CCEYD2F/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs58812"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs58979"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211100"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Warnmeldungen/DE/CB/2019/12/warnmeldung_cb-k20-0001.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-19232"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IY6DZ7WMDKU4ZDML6MJLDAPG42B5WVUC/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs58103"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=cve&on=view&id=CVE-2019-19232"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvs76870"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211100"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=defects&on=view&id=LIN1018-5506"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/bulletinapr2020.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/133936"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200103-0004/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.sudo.ws/devel.html#1.8.30b2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-19232.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1.8.29"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}