CVE-2026-54552

A flaw was found in sh, a Python library for process launching. When sh runs from an elevated process and launches a command with the uid option set to an unprivileged user, the child process may retain the parent process's supplementary groups. This incomplete privilege drop can allow the child...

CVE-2026-61897

A flaw was found in AccountsService. An Ubuntu-specific patch for AccountsService did not fully drop root privileges when launching language helper scripts. This oversight allows a local user to exploit the incomplete privilege drop, potentially enabling them to reset their effective user ID to...

CVE-2026-54552

sh provides Python process launching. Prior to 2.2.4, the uid option in sh.py performs an incomplete privilege drop on Linux and Unix-like systems. When sh runs from an elevated process and launches a command with uid set to an unprivileged user, the child changes its UID but can retain the paren...

CVE-2026-54552

The Python sh library's _uid option performs an incomplete privilege drop: child processes retain parent supplementary groups (root, docker, disk, shadow, sudo), enabling privilege escalation. Fixed in sh 2.2.4 ; SUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Leap patches (SUSE-SU-2026:3422-1, openSUSE-...

EUVD-2026-61127

sh provides Python process launching. Prior to 2.2.4, the uid option in sh.py performs an incomplete privilege drop on Linux and Unix-like systems. When sh runs from an elevated process and launches a command with uid set to an unprivileged user, the child changes its UID but can retain the paren...

CVE-2026-54552 sh _uid does not drop supplementary groups (incomplete privilege drop)

sh provides Python process launching. Prior to 2.2.4, the uid option in sh.py performs an incomplete privilege drop on Linux and Unix-like systems. When sh runs from an elevated process and launches a command with uid set to an unprivileged user, the child changes its UID but can retain the paren...

CVE-2026-54552 sh _uid does not drop supplementary groups (incomplete privilege drop)

sh provides Python process launching. Prior to 2.2.4, the uid option in sh.py performs an incomplete privilege drop on Linux and Unix-like systems. When sh runs from an elevated process and launches a command with uid set to an unprivileged user, the child changes its UID but can retain the paren...

openSUSE 16 Security Update : python-sh (openSUSE-SU-2026:21516-1)

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:21516-1 advisory. This update for python-sh fixes the following issue - CVE-2026-54552: uid option performs an incomplete privilege drop on Linux/Unix-like systems and...

SUSE-SU-2026:23134-1 Security update for python-sh

This update for python-sh fixes the following issue - CVE-2026-54552: uid option performs an incomplete privilege drop on Linux/Unix-like systems and allows for privilege escalation bsc1272424...

SUSE-SU-2026:23112-1 Security update for python-sh

This update for python-sh fixes the following issue - CVE-2026-54552: uid option performs an incomplete privilege drop on Linux/Unix-like systems and allows for privilege escalation bsc1272424...

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...