No, no. It doesn't work (tested and confirmed).
The sort block operates on the global variables $a and $b. A match without an explicit variable operates on $_. There is nothing mapping $a and $b to $_ there, so the sort block is just comparing 0 to 0 and leaving the order alone. The fact that /etc/password is in a "sorted" order makes it SEEM like it is working... but it isn't.
print reverse sort{/(:\d+:)/<=>/(:\d+:)/}<DATA>;
__DATA__
aaa:5:
bbb:3:
ccc:1:
ddd:7:
eee:8:
eee:8:
ddd:7:
ccc:1:
bbb:3:
aaa:5:
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