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🛡️ ALSA-2026:12310 — sudo (CVE-2026-35535)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Important: sudo security update

The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged commands, which are used for system management purposes, without having to log in as root.

Security Fix(es):

  • sudo: Sudo: Privilege escalation due to failure in privilege drop calls (CVE-2026-35535)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected software

ALSA-2026:12310 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • sudo (fixed in 1.9.5p2-15.el9_7)
  • sudo-python-plugin (fixed in 1.9.5p2-15.el9_7)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 April 2026 and last revised on 1 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

access.redhat.com (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
errata.almalinux.org (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

sudo has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-04-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-05-01
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
sudo — 1.9.5p2-15.el9_7
sudo-python-plugin — 1.9.5p2-15.el9_7

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