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Sudo vulnerabilities
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Junglewise Threat Intelligence has tracked 6 vulnerabilities in Sudo: 1 in the last 7 days and 2 in the last 90 days, 2 of them critical and 2 exploited in the wild. The most recent, CVE-2026-96512, was published on 23 September 2026.
- Last 7 days
- 1
- Last 90 days
- 2
- Critical, all time
- 2
- Exploited in the wild
- 2
About Sudo
A program for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user.
Latest Sudo vulnerabilities
- CVE-2026-96512: sudo time-based access restriction bypass via TZ environment variablehighCVSS 7.8EPSS 0.1%
- CVE-2026-82474: Sudo ptrace intercept bypass via execveathighCVSS 7.8EPSS 0.1%
- CVE-2026-35535: Sudo privilege escalation via fail-open privilege drop in mailerhighCVSS 7.4EPSS 0.0%
- CVE-2025-32463: Sudo privilege escalation via untrusted chroot configurationcriticalexploited in the wildCVSS 9.3EPSS 57.4%
- CVE-2021-3156: Sudo Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilitycriticalexploited in the wildCVSS 7.8
- CVE-1999-0958: Sudo path traversal in command validationhighCVSS 7.2
Most severe Sudo vulnerabilities
Exploited in the wild first, then by severity and CVSS score.
- CVE-2025-32463: Sudo privilege escalation via untrusted chroot configurationcriticalexploited in the wildCVSS 9.3EPSS 57.4%
- CVE-2021-3156: Sudo Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilitycriticalexploited in the wildCVSS 7.8
- CVE-2026-96512: sudo time-based access restriction bypass via TZ environment variablehighCVSS 7.8EPSS 0.1%
- CVE-2026-82474: Sudo ptrace intercept bypass via execveathighCVSS 7.8EPSS 0.1%
- CVE-2026-35535: Sudo privilege escalation via fail-open privilege drop in mailerhighCVSS 7.4EPSS 0.0%
- CVE-1999-0958: Sudo path traversal in command validationhighCVSS 7.2
Vulnerabilities per week
The last 13 weeks, by the week each vulnerability was published.
| Week of | Bar | Vulns | Critical |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jun 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 Jul 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 13 Jul 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 20 Jul 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 27 Jul 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 10 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 24 Aug 2026 | 1 | 0 | |
| 31 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 14 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 21 Sep 2026 | 1 | 0 |
How this is built
Junglewise Threat Intelligence collects vulnerabilities from NVD, GitHub Security Advisories, OSV, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, FIRST EPSS and vendor advisories, and matches each one to the technologies and vendors it affects. Dates are the date a vulnerability was published, in UTC.
The pages are rebuilt from the database every hour. Frozen weekly and monthly reports never change once published, so they can be cited.
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Cite as: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, "Sudo vulnerabilities", https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/sudo, 26 September 2026.