PYSEC-2026-3540 sh _uid does not drop supplementary groups (incomplete privilege drop)

Impact The uid option performed an incomplete privilege drop on Linux/Unix-like systems. When sh was run from a process with elevated privileges, such as root, and a command was launched with uid=, the child process changed its UID and primary GID but did not reset its supplementary groups. As a...

GHSA-Q38V-WP89-2W55 sh _uid does not drop supplementary groups (incomplete privilege drop)

Impact The uid option performed an incomplete privilege drop on Linux/Unix-like systems. When sh was run from a process with elevated privileges, such as root, and a command was launched with uid=, the child process changed its UID and primary GID but did not reset its supplementary groups. As a...