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Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access On Linux, Impacting Major Distros - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

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Jul 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Linux 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 1.9.17p1, when used with a sudoers file that specifies a host t…
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