RHEL 9 : sudo (RHSA-2025:9978)

high Nessus Plugin ID 241023

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for sudo.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:9978 advisory.

The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged commands, which are used for system management purposes, without having to log in as root.

Security Fix(es):

* sudo: LPE via host option (CVE-2025-32462)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL sudo package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:9978.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 241023

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-9978.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/1/2025

Updated: 10/9/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-32462

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sudo-python-plugin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sudo, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-32462

CWE: 863

IAVA: 2025-A-0465

RHSA: 2025:9978

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