CVE-2026-7006EPSS p2.0%
CVE-2026-7006CVE-2026-7006
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.3 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.13% probability of exploitation · percentile 2.0% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-22 |