Report · GCVE DatabaseAbout CVE-2025-32462Published 22 Jul 2025Updated 1 Sep 2026

Red Hat Security Advisory: sudo security update

Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database

Mentioned vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-32463

Authoritative record:CVE-2025-32462· Low 2.8

Not known to be exploited · public exploit available (Exploit-DB) · CVSS 2.8 Low.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS base score

2.8Low

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 91% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

Exploitation evidence

t = 0 is the CVE’s publication on cve.org

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 30 Jun 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: evidence found.
1 Exploit-DB entry, 8 days after disclosure
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

CVE ID reserved
by mitre
2025-04-09, 82 days before disclosure
CVE published
on cve.org
2025-06-30, t = 0
In Threat Radar
record ingested
2025-06-3020:39Z, the same day as disclosure
First Exploit-DB entry (opens in a new tab)
Sudo 1.9.17 Host Option - Elevation of Privilege
2025-07-08, 8 days after disclosure

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Red Hatredhat/sudo`pkg:rpm/redhat/sudo`Other threats	Affected =10 =10.0 =10.2	Fixed in–

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AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated sudo packages that address these vulnerabilities. System administrators should apply the security update as detailed in Red Hat's advisory RHSA-2025:11537 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying the official patch is the recommended remediation. No additional mitigation steps are indicated or required beyond applying the update.

Description

Red Hat has issued a security advisory for the sudo utility in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, addressing two local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities identified as CVE-2025-32462 and CVE-2025-32463. These vulnerabilities involve improper handling of the host option and the chroot option in sudo, potentially allowing unauthorized privilege escalation. The update is rated with an Important security impact by Red Hat Product Security. The advisory provides updated sudo packages to remediate these issues for multiple architectures and extended support versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

CWE-863Incorrect Authorization (opens in a new tab)
Class weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #17OWASP Top 10 A01:2025: Broken Access Control (opens in a new tab)
The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check.
Architecture and Design
Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries.
Architecture and Design
Ensure that access control checks are performed related to the business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that are applied to more generic resources such as files, connections, processes, memory, and database records.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Authorization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V8.3.8 (opens in a new tab)
V13.4.2 (opens in a new tab)
V7.2.2 (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).
CWE-427Uncontrolled Search Path Element (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessOWASP Top 10 A08:2025: Software or Data Integrity Failures (opens in a new tab)
The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors.
Architecture and Design · Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Hard-code the search path to a set of known-safe values (such as system directories), or only allow them to be specified by the administrator in a configuration file. Do not allow these settings to be modified by an external party. Be careful to avoid related weaknesses such as CWE-426 and CWE-428.
Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
When invoking other programs, specify those programs using fully-qualified pathnames. While this is an effective approach, code that uses fully-qualified pathnames might not be portable to other systems that do not use the same pathnames.
Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Remove or restrict all environment settings before invoking other programs. This includes the PATH environment variable, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and other settings that identify the location of code libraries, and any application-specific search paths.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Software Supply Chain Security (opens in a new tab)
Infrastructure as Code (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Leveraging/Manipulating Configuration File Search Paths (opens in a new tab)
Search Order Hijacking (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 12 Sep 2026, 22:01 UTC

Public exploits and detection1 Exploit-DB entry

WeaknessesCWE-863, CWE-427

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