CVE-2025-69257: theshit vulnerable to unsafe loading of user-owned Python rules when running as root

Vulnerability Type: Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) / Arbitrary Code Execution.

The application loads custom Python rules and configuration files from user-writable locations (e.g., ~/.config/theshit/) without validating ownership or permissions when executed with elevated privileges.

If the tool is invoked with sudo or otherwise runs with an effective UID of root, it continues to trust configuration files originating from the unprivileged user’s environment. This allows a local attacker to inject arbitrary Python code via a malicious rule or configuration file, which is then executed with root privileges.

Who is impacted: Any system where this tool is executed with elevated privileges is affected. In environments where the tool is permitted to run via sudo without a password (NOPASSWD), a local unprivileged user can escalate privileges to root without additional interaction.