[tomek@vz]

A newly disclosed local privilege escalation vulnerability in the widely used sudo utility threatens Linux systems worldwide, allowing attackers with limited access to gain complete administrative control.

CVE-2025-32463, discovered by security researcher Rich Mirch, affects multiple recent versions of sudo and now has a publicly available proof-of-concept exploit, significantly increasing the risk for unpatched systems.

Diagram illustrating a local privilege escalation attack via sudo chroot, exploiting directory traversal and symlink manipulation

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