CVE-2023-22809

sudo Privilege escalation

Affected sudo versions: 1.8.0 to 1.9.12p1

This script automates the exploitation of the CVE-2023-22809 vulnerability to gain a root shell.

The script checks if the current user has access to run the sudoedit or sudo -e command for some file with root privileges. If it does it opens the sudoers file for the attacker to introduce the privilege escalation policy for the current user and get a root shell.