Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros
The Hacker News
JULY 4, 2025
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is below - CVE-2025-32462 (CVSS score: 2.8) - Sudo before 1.9.
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