{
  "id": "CVE-2025-32463",
  "url": "https://spydr.io/cve/CVE-2025-32463",
  "published": "2025-06-30T21:15:30.257Z",
  "modified": "2026-06-17T09:12:02.147Z",
  "score": 7.8,
  "severity": "high",
  "cvss_version": "3.1",
  "vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
  "score_source": "NVD",
  "epss": 0.55498,
  "epss_percentile": 0.99012,
  "exploited": true,
  "kev": {
    "added": "2025-09-29",
    "due": "2025-10-20",
    "action": "Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.",
    "ransomware": "Unknown",
    "name": "Sudo Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere Vulnerability",
    "notes": "This vulnerability could affect an open-source component, third-party library, protocol, or proprietary implementation that could be used by different products. For more information, please see: https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/chroot_bug/ ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32463"
  },
  "ssvc_exploitation": "active",
  "vendors": [
    "Sudo project"
  ],
  "products": [
    "Sudo project Sudo"
  ],
  "cwes": [
    "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.",
  "status": "Analyzed",
  "score_type": "Primary",
  "scores": {
    "cvss_v40": null,
    "cvss_v31": 7.8,
    "cvss_v30": null
  },
  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-32463",
      "tags": [
        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-32463",
      "tags": [
        "Issue Tracking",
        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-32463.html",
      "tags": [
        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-32463",
      "tags": [
        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7604-1",
      "tags": [
        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/30/3",
      "tags": [
        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.secpod.com/blog/sudo-lpe-vulnerabilities-resolved-what-you-need-to-know-about-cve-2025-32462-and-cve-2025-32463/",
      "tags": [
        "Exploit",
        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.stratascale.com/vulnerability-alert-CVE-2025-32463-sudo-chroot",
      "tags": [
        "Exploit",
        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.sudo.ws/releases/changelog/",
      "tags": [
        "Release Notes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/",
      "tags": [
        "Vendor Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/chroot_bug/",
      "tags": [
        "Vendor Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-32463.html",
      "tags": [
        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2025/suse-su-202502177-1/",
      "tags": [
        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-32463-detect-sudo-vulnerability",
      "tags": [
        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-32463-mitigate-sudo-vulnerability",
      "tags": [
        "Mitigation",
        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://iototsecnews.jp/2025/07/01/linux-sudo-chroot-vulnerability-enables-hackers-to-elevate-privileges-to-root/",
      "tags": [
        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-32463",
      "tags": [
        "US Government Resource"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "nvd_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32463",
  "covered_in": [],
  "attribution": [
    {
      "source": "NVD",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov",
      "notice": "This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD."
    },
    {
      "source": "CISA KEV",
      "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog",
      "notice": "Known exploited vulnerabilities from the CISA KEV catalog."
    },
    {
      "source": "FIRST EPSS",
      "url": "https://www.first.org/epss",
      "notice": "Exploit prediction scores from FIRST EPSS."
    }
  ]
}