sudo: Sudo: Privilege escalation due to failure in privilege drop calls

A flaw was found in Sudo. A local user could exploit a failure in the setuid, setgid, or setgroups calls, which are used to drop privileges before running the mailer. This oversight allows for privilege escalation, enabling the user to gain elevated access on the system...

CLSA-2026-1778073563 sudo: Fix of CVE-2026-35535

CVE-2026-35535: drop group privileges and supplementary groups before running the mailer in execmailer, make setuid/setgid/setgroups failures fatal, and pass user gid alongside uid when NOROOTMAILER is defined...

sudo: Sudo: Privilege escalation due to failure in privilege drop calls

A flaw was found in Sudo. A local user could exploit a failure in the setuid, setgid, or setgroups calls, which are used to drop privileges before running the mailer. This oversight allows for privilege escalation, enabling the user to gain elevated access on the system...

CVE-2026-35535

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...