Tag: sudo
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Critical Vulnerability on sudo
CISA Alert: Critical Vulnerability in Sudo 🚨 A new vulnerability has been added by CISA to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: 🔹 CVE-2025-32463CVSS Score: 9.3 (Critical) Affected: All Sudo versions prior to 1.9.17p1Platforms: All Linux distributions and Unix-like systems According to CISA:Sudo contains a flaw that allows third-party functionality to be invoked without proper…
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Sudo Flaw Exploited
Organizations Warned of Exploited Sudo VulnerabilityThe vulnerability could allow local, low-privileged attackers to execute commands with root privileges, leading to full system compromise. The US cybersecurity agency CISA on Monday (September 29, 2025) warned that a recently patched local privilege escalation vulnerability in Sudo has been exploited in the wild. A command-line utility for Linux…
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More News on sudo Holes
Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros. Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is below –…
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Reset Forgotten Root Password on Ubuntu
You had set up root password in Ubuntu but cannot remember it now? Here’s how to reset forgotten root password in Ubuntu and hopefully in other Debian-based distros. It’s only human to forget passwords, especially if you are not using it frequently. It happens with Ubuntu, Linux, or any other operating system you use. If…
