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by lights0123 40 days ago
Until it overrides sudo in your $PATH to install malware after you enter your password later.
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Any application running as a user with sudo access and RW permissions on the users home folder effectively has root permissions, it'll just take a little longer to get it.

That's why Flatpaks sandbox doesn't exist if the application has access to the home folder.