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.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7.4
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.17%
- CWE
- CWE-271
- Published
- 2026-04-03
- Last modified
- 2026-09-01
Affected products
- Sudo project Sudo
Weakness type
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