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.

Project Subscriptions

No data.

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Weaknesses CWE-271
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-03T02:21:33.584Z

Reserved: 2026-04-03T02:21:32.829Z

Link: CVE-2026-35535

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-03T03:16:18.233

Modified: 2026-04-03T03:16:18.233

Link: CVE-2026-35535

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses