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CVE-2025-32463: Sudo Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere Vulnerability

criticalknown exploitedpublic exploitCVE-2025-32463
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as 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.

CSIRTS triage

vendor: Sudoproduct: SudoPrivilege escalation
What
The vulnerability allows local attackers to run arbitrary commands as root using the -R option.
Who is affected
Users of Sudo with the -R option enabled.
Urgency
Remediation is critical due to active exploitation and the potential for privilege escalation.
Action
Update Sudo to the latest version.

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Details

Source
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (US · database · site)
Severity
critical
Published
2025-09-29
Exploitation
Observed in the wild (CISA KEV)

Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32463

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2025-32463coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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