7.4 CVE-2026-35535

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.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35535

Categories

CWE-271 : Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors
In some contexts, a system executing with elevated permissions will hand off a process/file/etc. to another process or user. If the privileges of an entity are not reduced, then elevated privileges are spread throughout a system and possibly to an attacker.

References

 

AFFECTED (from MITRE)

---

Vendor	Product	Versions
Sudo project	Sudo	< 3e474c2f201484be83d994ae10a4e20e8c81bb69 [affected]
© 2022 The MITRE Corporation. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of The MITRE Corporation.

CPE

cpe	start	end

---

REMEDIATION

---

---

EXPLOITS

---

Exploit-db.com

id	description	date
No known exploits

---

POC Github

Url
No known exploits

---

Other Nist (github, ...)

Url
No known exploits

---

CAPEC

---

Common Attack Pattern Enumerations and Classifications

id	description	severity
No entry

---