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.
CVE-2025-32462
“—” 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.
- Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.8
- EG Score
- 8.8HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 56EG 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, 2026Sudo 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/oss-security - CVE-2025-32462: sudo local privilege escalation via host option
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/30/2USN-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[SECURITY] [DSA 5954-1] sudo security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2025/msg00118.html959314 – (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-2025-32462cve-details
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-32462Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-32462(19)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2025:15672Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.60 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2025:13289Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.55 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2025:12323Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.79 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2025:11537Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: sudo security update
- RHSA-2025:10781Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.44 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2025:10767Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.18.20 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2025:10771Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.19.4 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2025:10871Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: sudo security update
- +11 more
Patch Availability(21)
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)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| sudo | 1.9.5p2-3, 1.9.5p2-3+deb11u1 |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| sudo | 1.9.13p3-1, 1.9.13p3-1+deb12u1 |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| sudo | — |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| sudo | — |
| — |
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.
- 2026-10-19 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.5% · 91st 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.
- Open source ↗GitHub PoCyonathanpy/CVE-2025-32462-CVE-2025-32463-PoC-LabPublished Mar 5, 2026
- Exploit-DBEDB-52354Published Jul 8, 2025
Sudo 1.9.17 Host Option - Elevation of Privilege
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCMAAYTHM/CVE-2025-32462_32463-LabPublished Jul 7, 2025
Docker PoC for CVE-2025-32462 & CVE-2025-32463 (sudo), based on Stratascale CRU research.
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCSpongeBob-369/cve-2025-32462Published Jul 5, 2025
cve-2025-32462' demo
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoC0p5cur/CVE-2025-32462-POCPublished Jul 4, 2025
🔓 Local privilege escalation PoC for CVE-2025-32462 (sudo -h bypass) – gain root via misconfigured sudoers
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCCryingN/CVE-2025-32462Published Jul 3, 2025
A easy sudo poc by cryingn.
Open source ↗
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