{
    "id": "CVE-2025-32463",
    "published": "2025-06-30 21:15:30",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-17 09:12:02",
    "cvss_score": "9.3",
    "cvss_severity": "CRITICAL",
    "cvss_version": "3.1",
    "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "cwe": "CWE-829",
    "description": "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.",
    "epss_score": "0.61039",
    "epss_percentile": "0.99129",
    "kev": 1,
    "kev_due": "2025-10-20",
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-26 18:38:27",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 1,
        "label": "Patch first",
        "why": "On CISA KEV — known exploited in the wild, due 2025-10-20."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "canonical",
            "product": "ubuntu_linux"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "debian",
            "product": "debian_linux"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "opensuse",
            "product": "leap"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "redhat",
            "product": "enterprise_linux"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "sudo_project",
            "product": "sudo"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "suse",
            "product": "linux_enterprise_desktop"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "suse",
            "product": "linux_enterprise_real_time"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "suse",
            "product": "linux_enterprise_server_for_sap"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": {
        "cve_id": "CVE-2025-32463",
        "date_added": "2025-09-29",
        "due_date": "2025-10-20",
        "vendor": "Sudo",
        "product": "Sudo",
        "name": "Sudo Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere Vulnerability",
        "ransomware": 0
    },
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "52352",
            "title": "Sudo chroot 1.9.17 - Local Privilege Escalation",
            "date": "2025-07-08",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52352"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-32463",
        "https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-32463",
        "https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-32463.html",
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-32463",
        "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7604-1",
        "https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/30/3",
        "https://www.secpod.com/blog/sudo-lpe-vulnerabilities-resolved-what-you-need-to-know-about-cve-2025-32462-and-cve-2025-32463/",
        "https://www.stratascale.com/vulnerability-alert-CVE-2025-32463-sudo-chroot",
        "https://www.sudo.ws/releases/changelog/",
        "https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/",
        "https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/chroot_bug/",
        "https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-32463.html",
        "https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2025/suse-su-202502177-1/",
        "https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-32463-detect-sudo-vulnerability",
        "https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-32463-mitigate-sudo-vulnerability",
        "https://iototsecnews.jp/2025/07/01/linux-sudo-chroot-vulnerability-enables-hackers-to-elevate-privileges-to-root/",
        "https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-32463"
    ]
}