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RockyLinux 9 : sudo (RLSA-2025:9978)

high Nessus Plugin ID 266517

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Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:9978 advisory.

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:9978

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2374692

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 266517

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-9978.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 10/4/2025

Updated: 10/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

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:rocky:linux:sudo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sudo-python-plugin, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sudo-python-plugin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sudo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sudo-debugsource, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-32462