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HIGH

CVE-2026-35535

CVE-2026-35535 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Intelligence

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 Updated Sources: cvelistV5, mitre

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

0%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

sudo project

27 products listed

CVSS base

7.4

HIGH

CISA SSVC assessment

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

CISA

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

No

can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Total

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Products (27)

sudoruggedcom rst2428pred hat enterprise linux 10red hat enterprise linux 10 0 extended update supportred hat enterprise linux 6 extended lifecycle support extensionred hat enterprise linux 7 extended lifecycle supportred hat enterprise linux 8red hat enterprise linux 8 6 advanced mission critical update supportred hat enterprise linux 8 6 telecommunications update servicered hat enterprise linux 8 6 update services for sap solutionsred hat enterprise linux 8 8 telecommunications update servicered hat enterprise linux 8 8 update services for sap solutionsred hat enterprise linux 9red hat enterprise linux 9 0 update services for sap solutionsred hat enterprise linux 9 2 update services for sap solutionsred hat enterprise linux 9 4 extended update supportred hat enterprise linux 9 6 extended update supportred hat openshift container platform 4 12red hat openshift container platform 4 13red hat openshift container platform 4 14red hat openshift container platform 4 15red hat openshift container platform 4 16red hat openshift container platform 4 17red hat openshift container platform 4 18red hat openshift container platform 4 19red hat ai inference server 3 3red hat update infrastructure 5

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
7.4CVSS 3.1HIGH——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-271
  • CWE-272

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1574.005Hijack Execution Flow: Executable Installer File Permissions Weakness
  • T1574.010Hijack Execution Flow: Services File Permissions Weakness
  • T1027.006Obfuscated Files or Information: HTML Smuggling

References

25 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.