In Sudo before 1.8.26, if pwfeedback is enabled in /etc/sudoers, users can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow in the privileged sudo process. (pwfeedback is a default setting in Linux Mint and elementary OS; however, it is NOT the default for upstream and many other packages, and would exist only if enabled by an administrator.) The attacker needs to deliver a long string to the stdin of getln() in tgetpass.c.
CVE-2019-18634
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
This high-severity CVE scores 7.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 19% (97th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.
Also known asEUVD-2019-8357 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-rjv5-9w4p-4jrw (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.8
- EG Score
- 7.8HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 51EG Risk 51/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity78% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation40% × 40%EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.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
- 19%
- EPSS %ILE
- 97th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 19% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-28). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
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 (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
January 29, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (9)
Auto-updated Sep 25, 2026Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0509Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0487oss-security - Re: CVE-2019-18634: buffer overflow in sudo when pwfeedback is enabled
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/05/5oss-security - Re: CVE-2019-18634: buffer overflow in sudo when pwfeedback is enabled
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/05/2oss-security - Re: CVE-2019-18634: buffer overflow in sudo when pwfeedback is enabled
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/31/1oss-security - CVE-2019-18634: buffer overflow in sudo when pwfeedback is enabled
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/30/6Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2020-1-28-2 macOS Catalina 10.15.3, Security Update 2020-001 Mojave, Security Update 2020-001 High Sierra
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/40Locked Out | Packet Storm
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156189/Sudo-1.8.25p-Buffer-Overflow.htmlLocked Out | Packet Storm
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156174/Slackware-Security-Advisory-sudo-Updates.htmlPatch Availability(6)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | sudo (1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3.9) @ precise | 2026-10-28 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | sudo-ldap (1.8.27-1ubuntu4.1) @ eoan | 2026-10-28 | ubuntu |
| redhat | sudo-0:1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.3 | 2020-03-05 | redhat |
| redhat | sudo-0:1.8.23-4.el7_7.2 | 2020-02-19 | redhat |
| redhat | sudo-0:1.8.25p1-8.el8_1.1 | 2020-02-14 | redhat |
| redhat | sudo-0:1.8.25p1-4.el8_0.3 | 2020-02-14 | redhat |
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
(14 across 14 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.10(1)
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| sudo | — |
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Alpine:v3.11(1)
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| sudo | — |
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Alpine:v3.12(1)
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| sudo | — |
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Alpine:v3.13(1)
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| sudo | — |
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Alpine:v3.14(1)
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| sudo | — |
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Alpine:v3.15(1)
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| sudo | — |
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Alpine:v3.8(1)
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| sudo | — |
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Alpine:v3.9(1)
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| sudo | — |
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Debian:11(1)
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| sudo | — |
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Debian:12(1)
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| sudo | — |
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Debian:13(1)
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| sudo | — |
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Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| sudo | — |
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Debian:8(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| sudo | 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u2, 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u3, 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u4, 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u5, 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u6 |
| — |
Debian:9(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| sudo | 1.8.19p1-2.1, 1.8.19p1-2.1+deb9u1 |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(6)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Red HatRHSA-2020:0487IMPORTANT2020-01-30
RHSA-2020:0487 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2020:0509IMPORTANT2020-01-30
RHSA-2020:0509 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2020:0540IMPORTANT2020-01-30
RHSA-2020:0540 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2020:0726IMPORTANT2020-01-30
RHSA-2020:0726 — Important
- UbuntuUSN-4263-1LOW
Sudo vulnerability
- UbuntuUSN-4263-2LOW
Sudo vulnerability
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 38× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 98 of 174 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 2 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 76 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-10-31 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
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- 2026-10-28 22:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 22:20 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-28 22:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rjv5-9w4p-4jrw
- 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
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- 2026-10-21 17:59 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 17:59 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-13 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-13 01:29 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-13 01:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rjv5-9w4p-4jrw
- 2026-10-12 19:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 00:22 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-09-27 10:37 UTCOSV refresh
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- 2026-09-07 19:51 UTCOSV refresh
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- 2026-08-21 05:44 UTCOSV refresh
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Publicly available exploits
(7 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (2 Exploit-DB entries, 5 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- GitHub PoCchanbakjsd/CVE-2019-18634Published Apr 14, 2024
A reproduction of CVE-2019-18634, sudo privilege escalation with buffer overflow.
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCaesophor/CVE-2019-18634Published Aug 1, 2021
My n-day exploit for CVE-2019-18634 (local privilege escalation)
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCN1et/CVE-2019-18634Published Feb 13, 2020
An Python Exploit for Sudo vulnerability CVE-2019-18634
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCPlazmaz/CVE-2019-18634Published Feb 7, 2020
A functional exploit for CVE-2019-18634, a BSS overflow in sudo's pwfeedback feature that allows for for privesc
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCsaleemrashid/sudo-cve-2019-18634Published Feb 7, 2020
Proof of Concept for CVE-2019-18634
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-48052Published Feb 6, 2020
Sudo 1.8.25p - 'pwfeedback' Buffer Overflow
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-47995Published Feb 4, 2020
Sudo 1.8.25p - 'pwfeedback' Buffer Overflow (PoC)
Open source ↗
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