CVE•Published 2026-09-18•Modified 2026-09-22•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-7006

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

7.3

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 99% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-494Download of Code Without Integrity Check

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.

Timeline

Published 2026-09-18

Modified 2026-09-22

External references

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