CVE-2026-7006

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-494: Download of Code Without Integrity Check

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: total

References

• https://gist.github.com/anthok/765b3ca0223fabee38f51d8f832e2175
• https://www.sublimetext.com/
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sublime-text-4192-3207-local-privilege-escalation-via-update-staging-mechanism

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