Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors Affecting sudo package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.17% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SUDO-15924841
  • published7 Apr 2026
  • disclosed3 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-35535  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-271  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors due to improper error handling in the privilege drop before executing the mailer. An attacker can gain elevated privileges by exploiting a failure in the setuid, setgid, or setgroups system calls.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1