{"id":688,"date":"2025-07-04T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=688"},"modified":"2025-07-04T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:16:11","slug":"critical-sudo-vulnerabilities-let-local-users-gain-root-access-on-linux-impacting-major-distros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/critical-sudo-vulnerabilities-let-local-users-gain-root-access-on-linux-impacting-major-distros\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A brief description of the vulnerabilities is below &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2025-32462\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CVE-2025-32462<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(CVSS score: 2.8) &#8211; 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<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2025-32463\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CVE-2025-32463<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(CVSS score: 9.3) &#8211; Sudo before 1.9.17p1 allows local users to obtain root access because &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/man7.org\/linux\/man-pages\/man5\/nsswitch.conf.5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\/etc\/nsswitch.conf<\/a>&#8221; from a user-controlled directory is used with the &#8211;chroot option<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/critical-sudo-vulnerabilities-let-local-users-gain-root-access-on-linux-impacting-major-distros\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/07\/critical-sudo-vulnerabilities-let-local.html\">Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability","tag-40"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}