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title: "CVE-2025-32462: Sudo project Sudo vulnerability"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2025-32462/
description: "CVE-2025-32462 (Sudo project Sudo): Sudo before 1.9.17p1, when used with a sudoers file that specifies a host that is neither the current host nor ALL…"
type: vulnerability-record
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2025-06-30
date_modified: 2026-10-21
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
cve: "CVE-2025-32462"
kev: false
cvss: 2.8
epss: 0.04477
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
---

# CVE-2025-32462: Sudo project Sudo vulnerability

**Signal:** Normal patch cycle. No exploitation signal; fix it in your next routine update if you are affected. (Computed from CISA KEV, EPSS and CVSS; not an editorial verdict.)

## Should you act?

- No confirmed exploitation. It is not in CISA’s KEV catalog and CISA’s SSVC assessment records no known exploitation. That can change quickly after a public write-up; re-check if you are affected.
- EPSS 4.5% , percentile 91: FIRST’s model estimates a 4.5% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (elevated). EPSS is a probability, not a verdict.
- Needs local access needed. Lower urgency for most teams unless an attacker could already run code on the machine.
- Editorial verdict: Check exposure. sudo --chroot Local Root Escalation (CVE-2025-32463) — Distros patched this in mid-2025 and it is now known-exploited; any multi-user or shared Linux host still on sudo 1.9.14-1.9.17 without the vendor fix hands root to every local account.

## What it is

Sudo before 1.9.17p1, when used with a sudoers file that specifies a host that is neither the current host nor ALL, allows listed users to execute commands on unintended machines.

## Affected products (CVE record)

- Sudo project Sudo: 1.8.8 < 1.9.17p1

## Severity

- mitre CVSS 3.1: 2.8 `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N`

## Exploitation

- CISA KEV: not listed (no confirmed in-the-wild exploitation known to CISA).
- CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation none , automatable no , technical impact partial .
- FIRST EPSS (model of 2026-10-21): 4.48% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 91.

## Sources

- [CVE.org record CVE-2025-32462](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-32462)
- [NVD entry CVE-2025-32462](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32462)
- [sudo.ws](https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/)
- [sudo.ws](https://www.sudo.ws/releases/changelog/)
- [stratascale.com](https://www.stratascale.com/vulnerability-alert-CVE-2025-32462-sudo-host)
- [openwall.com](https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/30/2)
- [ubuntu.com](https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7604-1)
- [secpod.com](https://www.secpod.com/blog/sudo-lpe-vulnerabilities-resolved-what-you-need-to-know-about-cve-2025-32462-and-cve-2025-32463/)
- [sudo.ws](https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/host_any/)
- [lists.debian.org](https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2025/msg00118.html)
- [explore.alas.aws.amazon.com](https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-32462.html)
- [bugs.gentoo.org](https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-32462)
- [security-tracker.debian.org](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-32462)
- [suse.com](https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-32462.html)
- [access.redhat.com](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-32462)
- [lists.debian.org](https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/06/msg00033.html)
- [cert-portal.siemens.com](https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-585531.html)

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