CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-7006
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-09-18
- Last modified
- 2026-09-22
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-494
Description
Sublime Text for Windows through Build 4192 (Sublime Text 4) and Build 3207 (Sublime Text 3) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged local attackers to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges by abusing the update staging mechanism. Attackers can place a malicious DLL in the user-writable staging directory under %LOCALAPPDATA%, mark it read-only to bypass cleanup, and have the elevated installer copy it into the protected installation directory, causing the DLL to execute in the context of any higher-privileged user who subsequently launches the application.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-494 Download of Code Without Integrity Check weakness
References
- https://gist.github.com/anthok/765b3ca0223fabee38f51d8f832e2175 gist.github.com
- https://www.sublimetext.com/ www.sublimetext.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sublime-text-4192-3207-local-privilege-escalation-via-update-staging-mechanism www.vulncheck.com