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🛡️ CVE-2026-35535 — sinec-os

🟠 CVSS 7.4 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-271 NVD
7.4
CVSS Score
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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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-35535 is classified as CWE-271: Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors. The product does not drop privileges before passing control of a resource to an actor that does not have those privileges.

Affected software

CVE-2026-35535 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • sinec-os (fixed in 4.0)
  • sudo

Timeline and source

Published on 3 April 2026 and last revised on 24 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

bugs.debian.org
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lists.debian.org
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cert-portal.siemens.com
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Other advisories for this package

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

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-271: Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors) in other software:

CVE-2026-35535 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-271
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-04-03
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-24

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
sinec-os 4.0
sudo

References

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