July 1, 2025 By Zeljka Zorz
If you haven’t recently updated the Sudo utility on your Linux box(es), you should do so now, to patch two local privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-32462, CVE-2025-32463) that have been disclosed on Monday.
What is Sudo?
Sudo is command-line utility in Unix-like operating systems that allows a low-privilege user to execute a command as another user, typically the root/administrator user.
The utility effectively grants temporary elevated privileges without requiring the user to log in as root.
The user needs to authenticate themselves with their password and, if they are permitted by the configuration file (typically /etc/sudoers), the system will execute the requested command.