Sudoedit Brute force attempt

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Product

Cortex XDR

Last date published

2024-09-24

Activation Period	14 Days
Training Period	30 Days
Test Period	1 Hour
Deduplication Period	1 Day
Required Data	Requires: XDR Agent
Detection Modules
Detector Tags
ATT&CK Tactic	Privilege Escalation (TA0004)
ATT&CK Technique	Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068)
Severity	Medium

An unusual amount of sudoedit commands executed in a short period of time.
This may indicate an attempt to exploit CVE-2021-3156.

The attacker may gain higher privileges via exploitation of sudoedit.