CVE-2022-42717 Information

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.

Reference

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-23-vagrant-nfs-sudoers-configuration-allows-for-local-privilege-escalation/45423 https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/pull/12910 https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders/nfs