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Sudo Chroot 1.9.17 Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
Jun 30, 2025
Created
Sep 4, 2025

Description

Sudo before version 1.19.17p1 allows user to use `chroot` option, when
executing command. The option is intended to run a command with
user-selected root directory (if sudoers file allow it). Change in version
1.9.14 allows resolving paths via `chroot` using user-specified root
directory when sudoers is still evaluating.
This allows the attacker to trick Sudo into loading arbitrary shared object,
thus resulting in a privilege escalation.

Authors

msutovsky-r7
Stratascale
Rich Mirch

Platform

Linux

Architectures

cmd

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/linux/local/sudo_chroot_cve_2025_32463
    msf exploit(sudo_chroot_cve_2025_32463) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(sudo_chroot_cve_2025_32463) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(sudo_chroot_cve_2025_32463) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(sudo_chroot_cve_2025_32463) > exploit
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