CVE-2025-32462 - EXPLOIT
In 2025, a critical local privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in sudo, the standard Unix/Linux utility for delegating administrative commands. The CVE-2025-32462 vulnerability is a local privilege escalation flaw with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (Critical), affecting sudo versions 1.8.8 through 1.9.17 inclusive.
Affected systems: - Linux distributions: Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, Amazon Linux, Gentoo, Alpine. A corrected version, sudo 1.9.17p1, was released in June 2025 after responsible disclosure.
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