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GLSA-202507-01 : sudo: Privilege escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 241076

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202507-01 (sudo: Privilege escalation)

 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

All sudo users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-admin/sudo-1.9.17_p1

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202507-01

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959314

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 241076

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202507-01.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 7/1/2025

Updated: 9/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-32463

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-32462

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:sudo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2025

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/20/2025

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Sudo Chroot 1.9.17 Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-32462, CVE-2025-32463

IAVA: 2025-A-0465