#sudoExploitation #Abusingsudo #ExploitingSudo #LinuxPrivilegeEscalation #OSCP #sudoAudit
Linux Privilege Escalation through SUDO abuse.
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The tool can be used by pentesters, security auditors, system admins, CTF players, Infosec students and trolls :).
**WARNING: SUDO_KILLER is part of the KILLER project. SUDO_KILLER is still under development and there might be some issues, please create an issue if you found any. **
Other tool will be added to the KILLER project in the coming months so stay tuned up. Also ideas, bug reports, contributions are more than welcome !
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SUDO_KILLER is a tool that can be used for privilege escalation on linux environment by abusing SUDO in several ways. The tool helps to identify misconfiguration within sudo rules, vulnerability within the version of sudo being used (CVEs and vulns) and the use of dangerous binary, all of these could be abused to elevate privilege to ROOT.
SUDO_KILLER will then provide a list of commands or local exploits which could be exploited to elevate privilege. It is worth noting that the tool does not perform any exploitation on your behalf, the exploitation will need to be performed manually and this is intended.
- Misconfigurations
- Dangerous Binaries
- Vulnerable versions of sudo - CVEs
- Dangerous Environment Variables
- Credential Harvesting
- Writable directories where scripts reside
- Binaries that might be replaced
- Identify missing scripts
- New checks and/or scenarios
- CVE-2019-14287 - runas
- No CVE yet - sudoedit - absolute path
- CVE-2019-18634 - pwfeedback
- User Impersonation
- list of users in sudo group
- Performance improved
- Bugs corrected (checks, export, report,...)
- Continous improvement of the way output presented
- New videos will be added soon
- Annonying password input several time removed
- New functionality: offline mode - ability to extract the required info from audited system and run SK on host.
- Testing environment : A docker to play with the tool and different scenarios, you can also train on PE.
- Exploit for CVE-2021-3156 was added
- Detection for CVE-2021-3156 was added
- Detection for CVE-2021-23240 was added
- Exploit for CVE-2019-18634 was added
- Docker environment to test CVE-2019-18634 was added
- Video showing exploitation of CVE-2019-18634 was added
- Video showing exploitation of CVE-2021-3156 was added
- Arguments bug correction
- New dangerous bins added (more than 70)
- Display Timestamp (amount of time in minutes between instances of sudo before it will re-prompt for a password) was added.
- Bug Correction
- Detection CVE-2023-22809 was added
- Exploit for CVE-2023-22809 was added
- Video showing exploitation of CVE-2023-22809 was added
- Adding excessive sudo rights check - implies a user is root
- Adding check for MITRE Attack TTP T1548.003 (sudo caching)
./sudo_killer.sh -c -e -r report.txt -p /tmp
Run extract.sh on system to be audited/victim machine. Copy the output from /tmp/sk_offline.txt on the system to be audited/victim machine to your host.
- Note: Three checks are missing in the offline mode, still in dev... coming soon...
Run SK with the below parameter:
./sudo_killer.sh -c -i /path/sk_offline.txt
- -c : include CVE checks with respect to sudo version
- -i : import (offline mode) from extract.sh
- -e : include export of sudo rules / sudoers file
- -r : report name (save the output)
- -p : path where to save export and report
- -s : supply user password for sudo checks (If sudo rules is not accessible without current user's password)
- -h : help
It is worth noting that when using the -c argument, the CVEs identified are only based on the sudo version in used. Very often, a sudo version might be vulnerable but specific condition must be met for exploitation.
SK also check if some conditions are met for several CVEs without the -c such as CVE-2014-0106, CVE-2015-5602, CVE-2017-1000367, CVE-2019-14287, CVE-2019-18634, CVE-2021-3156, CVE-2021-23240 and CVE-2023-22809.
IMPORTANT: It has been observed that the workaround for the CVE-2023-22809 does not work on some old version of sudo, it is important to check before and after applying workaround.
If you need to input a password to run sudo -l then the script will not work if you don't provide a password with the argument -s.
If you are on a machine that has internet connection, just git clone the tool and run it. If you are on a machine that does not have internet, then git clone on your host, compress the tool (tar) then transfert the compressed file via http/smb (apache web server / python simplehttpserver / smb server / nc) then uncompressed the file on the targeted system and enjoy!
**NOTE : sudo_killer does not exploit automatically by itself, it was designed like this on purpose but check for misconguration and vulnerabilities and then propose you the following (if you are lucky the route to root is near!) :
- a list of commands to exploit
- a list of exploits
- some description on how and why the attack could be performed
By default, if the NOPASSWD tag is applied to any of the entries for a user on a host, you will be able to run "sudo -l" without a password. This behavior may be overridden via the verifypw and listpw options.
However, these rules only affect the current user, so if user impersonation is possible (using su) sudo -l should be launched from this user as well.
Sometimes the file /etc/sudoers can be read even if sudo -l is not accessible without password.
**IMPORTANT: The recommended way to test the tool is to use the docker image created on purpose for the testing. The image contained several vulnerabilities and misconfigurations related to the usage of SUDO.
Everything is tested from the Docker container available on Docker Hub !**
A Docker image is available on Docker Hub and automatically re-built at each update: https://hub.docker.com/r/th3xace/sudo_killer_demo . It is initially based on official debian:jessie Docker image (debian:jessie).
Pull SUDO_KILLER_DEMO Docker Image from the docker hub :
service docker start docker pull th3xace/sudo_killer_demo docker run --rm -it th3xace/sudo_killer_demo
Build locally from Dockerfile (This version maybe a bit more up-to-date):
service docker start git clone https://github.com/TH3xACE/SUDO_KILLER.git cd SUDO_KILLER docker build -t th3xace/sudo_killer_demo . docker run --rm -it th3xace/sudo_killer_demo
Pull SUDO_KILLER_DEMO2 Docker Image from the docker hub : (if you want to test CVE-2019-18634 (pwfeedback))
service docker start docker pull th3xace/sudo_killer_demo2 docker run --user 1000 --rm -it th3xace/sudo_killer_demo2 Then follow guidance from the tool, It should be noted that the version 1.8.25 was used for the demo and that for other versions slight changes should be made.Refer to the readme in the exploit folder for more info. There is also a video for the exploitation. Credits to the POC exploit's developper refer to notes.
Note: It is important to note that the docker is just an environment that can be used to play with the tool since it contains several vulns to exploit. The tool is meant to be used on its own.
Several videos are provided below with different scenarios of exploitation.
The playlist url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8iO9mYrfv8&list=PLQPKPAuCA40FMpMKWZLxQydLe7rPL5bml
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- Detection of CVE-2021-3156 - done
- Adding CVE-2021-3156 scenario to docker - done
- Detection of CVE-2021-23240 - done
- Adding CVE-2021-23240 scenario to docker + exploit - dome
- Credentials harvesting - done
- Adding excessive sudo rights check - implies a user is root- done
- Adding check for MITRE Attack TTP T1548.003 (sudo caching)- done
- Improve the way information on potential vuln and exploit are presented - done
- Adding scenario + detection exploit for CVE-2019-14287 - done
- Adding scenario exploit for CVE-2019-14287 - done
- Ability to extract data and do analysis offline - on your machine - partially done
- Perform the checks (identify vulnerabilities) even if the sudo's rules not accessible without password provided you have current user's password and provided by using the argument -s and waiting for password prompt
- Sudo token abuse - done
- Dealing with aliases
- Extracting sudo rules remotely via SSH (fully automated)
- Blind SUDO - This is a new sub-project (whenever you need a password to run sudo -l but you don't have it)
- Audit mode (need to have read access to /etc/sudoers)
- Detection CVE-2023-22809 - detection - done
- Adding CVE-2023-22809 scenario to docker - done
- Adding CVE-2023-22809 exploit - done
- If you want me to add any other one... please submit an issue
Thank you all for your support!
The script was developed by myself with the help of online resources found on github and in the wild. Credits also to the authors of the exploits related to CVEs. The authors information and links can be found in the exploit and in the notes provided when running the tool. Special kudos to Vincent Puydoyeux, who gave me the idea to develop this tool and Koutto, for helping me with the docker thing and for improving the tool.
This script is for Educational purpose ONLY. Do not use it without permission of the owner of the system you are running it. The usual disclaimer applies, especially the fact that me (TH3xACE) is not liable for any damages caused by direct or indirect use of the information or functionality provided by these programs. The author or any Internet provider bears NO responsibility for content or misuse of these programs or any derivatives thereof. By using these programs you accept the fact that any damage (dataloss, system crash, system compromise, etc.) caused by the use of the script is not my responsibility.