CVE-2026-35535

State
Published
Severity
7.4 High
Published
Apr 3, 2026
Updated
Sep 1, 2026
Reserved
Apr 3, 2026

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Description

In Sudo through 1.9.17p2 before 3e474c2, a failure of a setuid, setgid, or setgroups call, during a privilege drop before running the mailer, is not a fatal error and can lead to privilege escalation.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.4 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hmitre
3.17.4 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hredhat-SADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-271 Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors
  • CWE-272 Least Privilege Violation

Affected Products

ProductVersions
SudoSudo project
  • before 3e474c2f201484be83d994ae10a4e20e8c81bb69Affected

References

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