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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-03 | Published 2026-04-03 | Updated 2026-04-04 | Assigner mitre




HIGH: 7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-271 Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 3e474c2f201484be83d994ae10a4e20e8c81bb69
affected

References

github.com/...ommit/3e474c2f201484be83d994ae10a4e20e8c81bb69

www.qualys.com/2026/03/10/crack-armor.txt

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/2143042

bugs.debian.org/1130593

cve.org (CVE-2026-35535)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-35535)

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