SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : sudo (SUSE-SU-2025:02177-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 241038

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02177-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-32462: Fixed a possible local privilege escalation via the --host option (bsc#1245274).
- CVE-2025-32463: Fixed a possible local privilege Escalation via chroot option (bsc#1245275).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 241038

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02177-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/1/2025

Updated: 9/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-32463

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-32462

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sudo-policy-wheel-auth-self, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sudo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sudo-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sudo-policy-sudo-auth-self, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:system-group-sudo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sudo-plugin-python

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2025

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/20/2025

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Sudo Chroot 1.9.17 Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-32462, CVE-2025-32463

IAVA: 2025-A-0465

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02177-1

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