CVE-2026-35535

HIGH

7.4

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.4

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityHIGH

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published4/3/2026

Last Modified4/3/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-271

References

https://bugs.debian.org/1130593(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/2143042(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/3e474c2f201484be83d994ae10a4e20e8c81bb69(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.qualys.com/2026/03/10/crack-armor.txt(cve@mitre.org)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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