CVE-2025-32463

CRITICALNVD 9.39.3—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.3 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-09-29), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.3 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 5 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 59%CVSS: 9.3Exploit: cisa kev · ssvc active · Metasploit · epss top5pct · epss high · public exploitExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

Sudo before 1.9.17p1 allows local users to obtain root access because /etc/nsswitch.conf from a user-controlled directory is used with the --chroot option.

CVSS v3
9.3
EG Score
9.3(high)
EG Risk
82(Attend)
EG Risk 82/100SSVC: Attend

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity93% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Remediate soon — notable exploitation risk.
EPSS PROB
59%
EPSS %ILE
99%
KEV
⚠ Exploited

Published

June 30, 2025

Last Modified

November 5, 2025

Advisory Details (10)

Auto-updated Sep 15, 2026
⚠️ Active exploitation confirmed. Patch available. Sources: redhat, ubuntu.
generic

Security Advisories | Sudo

https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/
generic

ChangeLog | Sudo

https://www.sudo.ws/releases/changelog/
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

Sudo LPE Vulnerabilities Resolved: What You Need to Know About CVE-202 | SecPod

https://www.secpod.com/blog/sudo-lpe-vulnerabilities-resolved-what-you-need-to-know-about-cve-2025-32462-and-cve-2025-32463/
generic

oss-security - CVE-2025-32463: sudo local privilege escalation via chroot option

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/30/3
ubuntu Patch Available

USN-7604-1: Sudo vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu

Affected: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10, and

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7604-1
generic

CVE-2025-32463

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-32463
generic

CVE-2025-32463

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-32463.html
generic

959314 – (CVE-2025-32462, CVE-2025-32463) <app-admin/sudo-1.9.17_p1: two local privilege escalation vulnerabilities

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-32463
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2025-32463 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-32463
generic🟡 PoC Available

Sudo chroot elevation of privilege | Stratascale

https://www.stratascale.com/vulnerability-alert-CVE-2025-32463-sudo-chroot

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-32463(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntusudo-ldap (1.9.9-1ubuntu2.5) @ jammy2026-09-19ubuntu
redhatsudo-0:1.9.15-8.p5.el10_0.22025-07-22redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(2 across 2 ecosystems)
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
sudo—1.9.16p2-3—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
sudo—1.9.16p2-3—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(2)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 92× in last 7d / 388× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,382 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-09-19 08:49 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-09-19 08:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-19 04:22 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-09-19 04:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-18 23:58 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-09-18 23:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-18 19:34 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-09-18 19:34 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-09-18 19:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-09-18 19:20 UTCCISA KEV update
  12. 2026-09-18 15:10 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-09-18 15:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-18 14:15 UTCCISA KEV update
  15. 2026-09-18 10:45 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-09-18 10:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-18 06:21 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-09-18 06:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-18 01:57 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-09-18 01:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-17 21:32 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-17 21:32 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-09-17 21:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-17 17:08 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-09-17 17:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-09-17 12:40 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-09-17 12:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-17 08:11 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-09-17 08:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-17 03:46 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-09-17 03:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-16 23:22 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-09-16 23:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-09-16 18:58 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-09-16 18:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-09-16 14:34 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-16 14:34 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-09-16 14:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-16 14:10 UTCCISA KEV update
  15. 2026-09-16 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-09-16 10:10 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-09-16 10:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-16 05:46 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-09-16 05:46 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-09-16 05:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-16 05:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-09-16 01:22 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-09-16 01:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-15 20:58 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-09-15 20:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-09-15 16:34 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-09-15 16:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-09-15 12:10 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-09-15 12:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-09-15 07:46 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-09-15 07:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-09-15 03:21 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-09-15 03:21 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-09-15 03:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  35. 2026-09-14 22:57 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-09-14 22:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-09-14 19:24 UTCCISA KEV update
  38. 2026-09-14 18:32 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-09-14 18:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-09-14 14:08 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-09-14 14:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-09-14 09:44 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-09-14 09:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  44. 2026-09-14 05:19 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-09-14 05:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-09-14 00:55 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-09-14 00:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  48. 2026-09-13 20:31 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-09-13 20:31 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-09-13 20:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  51. 2026-09-13 16:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  52. 2026-09-13 16:07 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-09-13 16:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  54. 2026-09-13 11:42 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-09-13 11:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  56. 2026-09-13 07:17 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-09-13 07:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  58. 2026-09-13 02:54 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-09-13 02:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  60. 2026-09-12 22:30 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-09-12 22:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  62. 2026-09-12 18:05 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-09-12 18:05 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-09-12 18:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-09-12 15:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  66. 2026-09-12 13:41 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-09-12 13:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  68. 2026-09-12 09:17 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-09-12 09:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  70. 2026-09-12 04:53 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-09-12 04:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  72. 2026-09-12 00:29 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-09-12 00:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  74. 2026-09-11 20:05 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-09-11 20:05 UTCGHSA enrichment

Publicly available exploits

(10 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (9 GitHub PoCs) (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • GitHub PoC1xPwn/CVE-2025-32463
    First seen Aug 8, 2025

    This CVE addresses a vulnerability in sudo versions 1.9.14 to 1.9.17, enabling unauthorized local privilege escalation to root access.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCNowafen/CVE-2025-32463
    First seen Aug 8, 2025

    This CVE addresses a vulnerability in sudo versions 1.9.14 to 1.9.17, enabling unauthorized local privilege escalation to root access.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCAdityaBhatt3010/Sudo-Privilege-Escalation-Linux-CVE-2025-32463-and-CVE-2025-32462
    First seen Jul 21, 2025

    A deep dive into two critical Sudo vulnerabilities (CVE‑2025‑32463 & CVE‑2025‑32462) that enable local privilege escalation across major Linux distributions.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCMohamedKarrab/CVE-2025-32463
    First seen Jul 14, 2025

    Privilege escalation to root using sudo chroot, NO NEED for gcc installed.

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-52352
    First seen Jul 8, 2025

    Sudo chroot 1.9.17 - Local Privilege Escalation

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCK3ysTr0K3R/CVE-2025-32463-EXPLOIT
    First seen Jul 6, 2025

    A PoC exploit for CVE-2025-32463 - Sudo Privilege Escalation

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCzinzloun/CVE-2025-32463
    First seen Jul 4, 2025

    # CVE-2025-32463 – Sudo EoP Exploit (PoC) with precompiled .so

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCmirchr/CVE-2025-32463-sudo-chwoot
    First seen Jul 3, 2025

    PoC for CVE-2025-32463 - Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCkh4sh3i/CVE-2025-32463
    First seen Jul 2, 2025

    Local Privilege Escalation to Root via Sudo chroot in Linux

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCK1tt3h/CVE-2025-32463-POC
    First seen Jul 1, 2025

    CVE-2025-32463 Proof of concept

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2025-32463?
CVE-2025-32463 is a critical vulnerability published on June 30, 2025. Sudo before 1.9.17p1 allows local users to obtain root access because /etc/nsswitch.conf from a user-controlled directory is used with the --chroot option.
When was CVE-2025-32463 disclosed?
CVE-2025-32463 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on June 30, 2025, with the most recent update on November 5, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2025-32463 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2025-32463 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 29, 2025, affecting Sudo Sudo. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate patching attention.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-32463?
CVE-2025-32463 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.3 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2025-32463?
CVE-2025-32463 affects Sudo Sudo. The full affected-products list, including version ranges and fixed versions, is shown in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2025-32463?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2025-32463, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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