{"id":1777,"date":"2025-10-02T10:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:55:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:55:04","slug":"cisa-sounds-alarm-on-critical-sudo-flaw-actively-exploited-in-linux-and-unix-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/blog\/cisa-sounds-alarm-on-critical-sudo-flaw-actively-exploited-in-linux-and-unix-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"CISA Sounds Alarm on Critical Sudo Flaw Actively Exploited in Linux and Unix Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/news-events\/alerts\/2025\/09\/29\/cisa-adds-five-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>\u00a0a critical security flaw impacting the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KEV<\/a>) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-32463 (CVSS score: 9.3), which affects Sudo versions prior to 1.9.17p1. It was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/07\/critical-sudo-vulnerabilities-let-local.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disclosed<\/a>\u00a0by Stratascale researcher Rich Mirch back in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sudo contains an inclusion of functionality from an untrusted control sphere vulnerability,&#8221; CISA said. &#8220;This vulnerability could allow a local attacker to leverage sudo&#8217;s -R (&#8211;chroot) option to run arbitrary commands as root, even if they are not listed in the sudoers file.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s currently not known how the shortcoming is being exploited in real-world attacks, and who may be behind such efforts. Also added to the KEV catalog are four other flaws &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/09\/hackers-exploit-pandoc-cve-2025-51591.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CVE-2021-21311<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Adminer contains a server-side request forgery vulnerability that, when exploited, allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information. (Disclosed as exploited by Google Mandiant in May 2022 by a threat actor called UNC2903 to target AWS IMDS setups)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/09\/cisco-warns-of-actively-exploited-snmp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CVE-2025-20352<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Cisco IOS and IOS XE contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem that could allow for denial of service or remote code execution. (Disclosed as exploited by Cisco last week)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/09\/fortra-goanywhere-cvss-10-flaw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CVE-2025-10035<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Fortra GoAnywhere MFT contains a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that allows an actor with a validly forged license response signature to deserialize an arbitrary actor-controlled object, possibly leading to command injection. (Disclosed as exploited by watchTowr Labs last week)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/09\/state-sponsored-hackers-exploiting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CVE-2025-59689<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Libraesva Email Security Gateway (ESG) contains a command injection vulnerability that allows command injection via a compressed email attachment. (Disclosed as exploited by Libraesva last week)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In light of active exploitation, Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies relying on the affected products are advised to apply the necessary mitigations by October 20, 2025, to secure their networks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/09\/cisa-sounds-alarm-on-critical-sudo-flaw.html\">Read the Full Story Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: The Hacker News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday\u00a0added\u00a0a critical security flaw impacting the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-32463 (CVSS score: 9.3), which affects Sudo versions prior to 1.9.17p1. 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