US EditionYour Linux System Was Exposed: Critical Sudo Flaws Now Patched
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Your Linux System Was Exposed: Critical Sudo Flaws Now Patched
Yesterday, while I was making the final touches on LTM Monthly Newsletter 25.01, exactly in its Cyberwatch section and almost ready to hit the send (and publish) button, I got the news of two very serious vulnerabilities hitting the sudo utility you use frequently—if not daily—on your terminal: CVE‑2025‑32462 and CVE‑2025‑32463. This should storm your brain with two questions: What do these two sudo flaws offer attackers? And what should you do …
The CVE-2025-32463 critical vulnerability affects the sudo UNIX and Linux tool and allows local, non-privileged users to gain root rights. The team of the Stratascale Cyber Research Unit (CRU) discovered two local privileges vulnerabilities in sudo. These vulnerabilities can lead to root rights being obtained on the affected system. Sudo (short for superuser do) is a tool in UNIX and Linux systems with which administrators assign rights. Thus, n…
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