CVE-2025-32463 (GCVE-0-2025-32463)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-30 00:00
Modified
2025-07-22 14:59
Severity ?
9.3 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
Summary
Sudo before 1.9.17p1 allows local users to obtain root access because /etc/nsswitch.conf from a user-controlled directory is used with the --chroot option.
References
cve@mitre.org https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-32463 Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-32463 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-32463.html Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-32463 Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7604-1 Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/30/3 Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://www.secpod.com/blog/sudo-lpe-vulnerabilities-resolved-what-you-need-to-know-about-cve-2025-32462-and-cve-2025-32463/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://www.stratascale.com/vulnerability-alert-CVE-2025-32463-sudo-chroot Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://www.sudo.ws/releases/changelog/ Release Notes
cve@mitre.org https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/ Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/chroot_bug/
cve@mitre.org https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-32463.html Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2025/suse-su-202502177-1/ Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-32463-detect-sudo-vulnerability
cve@mitre.org https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-32463-mitigate-sudo-vulnerability
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 https://iototsecnews.jp/2025/07/01/linux-sudo-chroot-vulnerability-enables-hackers-to-elevate-privileges-to-root/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Sudo project Sudo Version: 1.9.14   < 1.9.17p1
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