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.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-04-03T02:21:33.584Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-04T03:55:19.379Z

Source :

mitre
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-35535 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Sudo Project
  • Sudo
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2026-35535.

URL Resource
https://bugs.debian.org/1130593 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/2143042 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/3e474c2f201484be83d994ae10a4e20e8c81bb69 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35535 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35535 cve-icon
https://www.qualys.com/2026/03/10/crack-armor.txt cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
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