CVE-2026-35535

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.

CVSS Vector

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/1130593
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/2143042
• https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/3e474c2f201484be83d994ae10a4e20e8c81bb69
• https://www.qualys.com/2026/03/10/crack-armor.txt