CVE-2019-14287

HIGHNVD 8.88.9▲
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 8.9 because EPSS predicts 64% probability of exploitation within the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). NVD baseline CVSS 8.8 retained for reference. Confidence: see factors.

Triggered by: EPSS exploit prediction (continuous uplift above 30%)
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Elevated
8.9EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch this weekExploitation is likely or a public exploit exists.
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 64%
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 64%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: Elevated riskExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In Sudo before 1.8.28, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy blacklists and session PAM modules, and can cause incorrect logging, by invoking sudo with a crafted user ID. For example, this allows bypass of !root configuration, and USER= logging, for a "sudo -u \#$((0xffffffff))" command.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.9HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
70
EG Risk 70/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity89% × 45%
Exploitation64% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
64%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (EG-KEV: elevated) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

October 17, 2019

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Aug 15, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3204
redhatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3197
redhatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:3248
generic

oss-security - Re: Oracle Solaris membership in the distros list

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/14/2
generic

oss-security - Re: Membership application for linux-distros - VMware

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/29/3
generic

oss-security - Membership application for linux-distros - VMware

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/24/1
generic

oss-security - Sudo: CVE-2019-14287

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/14/1
generic

Packet Storm Security

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154853/Slackware-Security-Advisory-sudo-Updates.html

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2019-14287(15)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(15)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntusudo-ldap (1.8.21p2-3ubuntu1.1) @ bionic2026-05-27ubuntu
redhatsudo-0:1.8.25p1-4.el8_0.22020-02-04redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.7.2p1-31.el5_11.12019-12-10redhat
redhatmachine-os-content-container2019-11-21redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.8.6p3-12.el6_5.22019-11-18redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.22019-11-06redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.8.6p3-15.el6_6.22019-11-06redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.8.25p1-8.el8_12019-11-05redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.8.6p7-17.el7_2.22019-10-31redhat
redhatredhat-virtualization-host-0:4.2-20191022.0.el7_62019-10-30redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.8.6p7-23.el7_3.22019-10-29redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.8.19p2-12.el7_4.12019-10-28redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.8.23-3.el7_6.12019-10-24redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.8.23-4.el7_7.12019-10-24redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.8.19p2-14.el7_5.12019-10-24redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(15 across 15 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.8.27-r1: fixed in 1.8.27-r1
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Alpine:v3.11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.8.28-r0: fixed in 1.8.28-r0
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Alpine:v3.12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.8.28-r0: fixed in 1.8.28-r0
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Alpine:v3.13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.8.28-r0: fixed in 1.8.28-r0
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Alpine:v3.14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.8.28-r0: fixed in 1.8.28-r0
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Alpine:v3.15(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.8.28-r0: fixed in 1.8.28-r0
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Alpine:v3.8(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.8.23-r3: fixed in 1.8.23-r3
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Alpine:v3.9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.8.25_p1-r3: fixed in 1.8.25_p1-r3
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Debian:10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo1.8.27-1
  • every version up to 1.8.27-1+deb10u1: fixed in 1.8.27-1+deb10u1
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.8.27-1.1: fixed in 1.8.27-1.1
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.8.27-1.1: fixed in 1.8.27-1.1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.8.27-1.1: fixed in 1.8.27-1.1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.8.27-1.1: fixed in 1.8.27-1.1
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Debian:8(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo1.8.10p3-1+deb8u2, 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u3, 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u4, 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u5
  • every version up to 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u6: fixed in 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u6
—
Debian:9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo1.8.19p1-2.1
  • every version up to 1.8.19p1-2.1+deb9u1: fixed in 1.8.19p1-2.1+deb9u1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 5× in last 7d / 19× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 110 total refreshes for this CVE.

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Publicly available exploits

(4 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (3 GitHub PoCs) (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • GitHub PoCCMNatic/Dockerized-CVE-2019-14287
    First seen Feb 9, 2020

    Containerized and deployable use of the CVE-2019-14287 vuln. View README.md for more.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCshallvhack/Sudo-Security-Bypass-CVE-2019-14287
    First seen Oct 18, 2019

    Sudo Security Bypass (CVE-2019-14287)

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-47502
    First seen Oct 15, 2019

    sudo 1.8.27 - Security Bypass

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCn0w4n/CVE-2019-14287
    First seen Oct 15, 2019

    Sudo exploit

    Open source ↗

Related CVEs(same product + same vendor + same CWE)

Same vendor

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redhat:RHSA-2019:3916 · redhat:RHBA-2019:3248 · redhat:RHSA-2019:3941

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2019-14287?
CVE-2019-14287 is a high vulnerability published on October 17, 2019. In Sudo before 1.8.28, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy blacklists and session PAM modules, and can cause incorrect logging, by invoking sudo with a crafted user ID. For example, this allows bypass of !root configuration, and USER= logging, for a "sudo…
When was CVE-2019-14287 disclosed?
CVE-2019-14287 was first published on October 17, 2019, with the most recent update on November 21, 2024. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2019-14287 actively exploited?
CVE-2019-14287 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 64% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2019-14287?
CVE-2019-14287 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 8.9 (HIGH).
How do I remediate CVE-2019-14287?
A fix for CVE-2019-14287 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2019-14287 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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