Security Advisory

CVE-2022-42717

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-10-11 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-05-20 14:12:42
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

An issue was discovered in Hashicorp Packer before 2.3.1. The recommended sudoers configuration for Vagrant on Linux is insecure. If the host has been configured according to this documentation, non-privileged users on the host can leverage a wildcard in the sudoers configuration to execute arbitrary commands as root.