{"schema_version":1,"title":"Sudo vulnerabilities","summary":"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. 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