CVE-2025-32462

HIGHNVD 8.88.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This high-severity CVE scores 8.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 4.5% (91st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 2.8 is lower than this score; a lower GitHub score revises it only when its advisory is newer than the CVE record's last change, and this advisory (published 2025-06-30) is not newer than that change (2026-07-14), so it does not.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Elevated
8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 4.5%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
56
EG Risk 56/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity88% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
4.5%
EPSS %ILE
91st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (8.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
4.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

June 30, 2025

Last Modified

July 14, 2026

Advisory Details (9)

Auto-updated Jul 14, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat, ubuntu.
Web page

Sudo LPE Vulnerabilities Resolved: What You Need to Know About CVE-202 | SecPod

https://www.secpod.com/blog/sudo-lpe-vulnerabilities-resolved-what-you-need-to-know-about-cve-2025-32462-and-cve-2025-32463/
Web page

oss-security - CVE-2025-32462: sudo local privilege escalation via host option

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/30/2
UbuntuMentions a patch (unverified)

USN-7604-1: Sudo vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu

Affected: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10, and

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7604-1
Web page

[SECURITY] [DSA 5954-1] sudo security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2025/msg00118.html
Web page

959314 – (CVE-2025-32462, CVE-2025-32463) <app-admin/sudo-1.9.17_p1: two local privilege escalation vulnerabilities

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-32462
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

cve-details

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-32462

Patch Availability(21)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntusudo-ldap (1.9.9-1ubuntu2.5) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntusudo-ldap (1.8.16-0ubuntu1.10+esm3) @ xenial2026-05-30ubuntu
redhatrhcos-413.92.202509030117-02025-09-18redhat
redhatrhcos-414.92.202508041909-02025-08-14redhat
redhatrhcos-415.92.202507301737-02025-08-07redhat
redhatrhcos-417.94.202507291008-02025-08-07redhat
redhatrhcos-412.86.202507280202-02025-08-07redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.9.15-8.p5.el10_0.22025-07-22redhat
redhatrhcos-418.94.202507091512-02025-07-17redhat
redhatrhcos-416.94.202507100308-02025-07-17redhat
redhatrhcos-4.19.9.6.202507081759-02025-07-16redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.8.23-10.el7_9.42025-07-14redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.9.5p2-7.el9_0.52025-07-14redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.9.5p2-1.el8_8.12025-07-14redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.9.5p2-9.el9_2.32025-07-10redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.9.5p2-10.el9_4.12025-07-09redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.9.5p2-1.el8_6.12025-07-07redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.8.29-5.el8_2.32025-07-07redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.8.29-7.el8_4.32025-07-07redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.9.5p2-1.el8_10.12025-07-01redhat
redhatsudo-0:1.9.5p2-10.el9_6.12025-06-30redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo1.9.5p2-3, 1.9.5p2-3+deb11u1
  • every version up to 1.9.5p2-3+deb11u2: fixed in 1.9.5p2-3+deb11u2
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo1.9.13p3-1, 1.9.13p3-1+deb12u1
  • every version up to 1.9.13p3-1+deb12u2: fixed in 1.9.13p3-1+deb12u2
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.9.16p2-3: fixed in 1.9.16p2-3
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sudo—
  • every version up to 1.9.16p2-3: fixed in 1.9.16p2-3
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(4)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 32× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 91 of 164 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 9 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 73 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-19 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.5% · 91st percentile
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  1. 2026-09-29 15:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.4% · 91st percentile
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  60. 2026-07-22 14:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.3% · 87th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(6 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Exploit-DB entry, 5 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub PoCyonathanpy/CVE-2025-32462-CVE-2025-32463-PoC-Lab
    Published Mar 5, 2026
    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-52354
    Published Jul 8, 2025

    Sudo 1.9.17 Host Option - Elevation of Privilege

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCMAAYTHM/CVE-2025-32462_32463-Lab
    Published Jul 7, 2025

    Docker PoC for CVE-2025-32462 & CVE-2025-32463 (sudo), based on Stratascale CRU research.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCSpongeBob-369/cve-2025-32462
    Published Jul 5, 2025

    cve-2025-32462' demo

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoC0p5cur/CVE-2025-32462-POC
    Published Jul 4, 2025

    🔓 Local privilege escalation PoC for CVE-2025-32462 (sudo -h bypass) – gain root via misconfigured sudoers

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCCryingN/CVE-2025-32462
    Published Jul 3, 2025

    A easy sudo poc by cryingn.

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-32462?
CVE-2025-32462 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 30, 2025. 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.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2025-32462 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2025-32462 was published on June 30, 2025. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of July 14, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2025-32462 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-32462 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (91st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-32462?
CVE-2025-32462 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-32462?
A fix for CVE-2025-32462 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2025-32462 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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