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CVE-2023-26604

7.8 high SSVC exploitation: poc Modified
NVD · CVE.org

systemd before 247 does not adequately block local privilege escalation for some Sudo configurations, e.g., plausible sudoers files in which the "systemctl status" command may be executed. Specifically, systemd does not set LESSSECURE to 1, and thus other programs may be launched from the less program. This presents a substantial security risk when running systemctl from Sudo, because less executes as root when the terminal size is too small to show the complete systemctl output.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 7.8 · debian, systemd_projectNVD modified 2026-10-14 23:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 2

  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:systemd_project:systemd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 13