CVE-2023-26604

A vulnerability was found in the systemd package. The systemd package does not adequately block local privilege escalation for some sudo configurations, for example, plausible sudoers files, in which the "systemctl status" command may be executed. Specifically, systemd does not set LESSSECURE to 1, and thus other programs may be launched from the less program. This issue presents a substantial security risk when running systemctl from Sudo because less executes as root when the terminal size is too small to show the complete systemctl output.

As the vulnerability requires a non-default configuration (modified sudoer rules) which is beyond control of an attacker, the impact as been rated Moderate.

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