CVE-2025-32463

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: June 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:12 AM UTC
8 products affected across 6 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxEnterprise Linux

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploitation
CISA KEV
Exploit prediction
EPSS 55%
SSVC
Active

Actively Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog

EPSS Score55.5%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) estimates a 55.5% chance this CVE is exploited in the wild within the next 30 days — higher than 99% of all CVEs. It complements CVSS: a high EPSS on a mid-severity CVE can still be urgent.

Sudo contains an inclusion of functionality from untrusted control sphere vulnerability. This vulnerability could allow local attacker to leverage sudo’s -R (--chroot) option to run arbitrary commands as root, even if they are not listed in the sudoers file.

Required Action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Ransomware Use
Unknown
Added to KEV
Sep 29, 2025
Remediation Due
Oct 20, 2025
371 days overdue

Description

Sudo before 1.9.17p1 allows local users to obtain root access because /etc/nsswitch.conf from a user-controlled directory is used with the --chroot option.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

1.9.14 ≤ v < 1.9.171.9.14 ≤ v < 1.9.17p11.9.141.9.17
Affected range stops below 1.9.17, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.9.17p1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCActiveNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-829

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