The US cybersecurity agency CISA on Monday warned that a recently patched local privilege escalation vulnerability in Sudo has been exploited in the wild. A command-line utility for Linux and macOS, Sudo enables specified users to execute commands with root or administrator privileges without having to log in as superuser. A Windows implementation of the Sudo concept also exists, but it is not a fork or port of the Unix project. Because of the elevated temporary access that Sudo provides on Linux and macOS, only users configured in a sudoers file are permitted to execute commands via Sudo. The security defect flagged as exploited by CISA, tracked as CVE-2025-32463 (CVSS score of 9.3), allows any user to execute commands using Sudo, even if they are not configured in the sudoers file.…