Sudo Potential Privilege Escalation
Description
Affecting sudo (<= 1.9.5p2), there's a privilege escalation vulnerability. By executing sudo using the sudoedit -s or sudoedit -i command with a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character, an unprivileged user can potentially escalate privileges to root. This rule is highly specific and might be bypassed due to potential issues with string matching on command line arguments.
Query · falco
spawned_process and user.loginuid != 0 and (proc.name=sudoedit or proc.name = sudo) and (proc.args contains -s or proc.args contains -i or proc.args contains --login) and (proc.args contains "\ " or proc.args endswith \)
Rule dependencies
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composes · Falco macro
spawned_processA shared condition, not a detection — not indexed on this site.
Analyst notes
Detect Sudo Privilege Escalation Exploit (CVE-2021-3156) | evt_type=%evt.type user=%user.name user_uid=%user.uid user_loginuid=%user.loginuid process=%proc.name proc_exepath=%proc.exepath parent=%proc.pname command=%proc.cmdline terminal=%proc.tty exe_flags=%evt.arg.flags