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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, but this isn't a privilege escalation, this requires privilege escalation, and it merely installs a backdoor that preserves that privilege.

It's like installing something in cron or systemd, it's not a vulnerability in itself, but it can allow an attacker to add a backdoor once they exploit a vulnerability once.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ah fine, that was the first result in google, i didn't read it enough. But there were some privilege escalations in sudo and lots more of misconfiguration. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=sudo