Sublime Text 4192/3207 Local Privilege Escalation via Update Staging Mechanism
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.
CVE-2026-7006
Primary source · Revision 1
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-7006
Sublime Text 4
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Sublime Text 3
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/1/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "Sublime HQ Pty Ltd",
"product": "Sublime Text 4",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "4192",
"versionType": "custom"
}
],
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
},
{
"vendor": "Sublime HQ Pty Ltd",
"product": "Sublime Text 3",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "3207",
"versionType": "custom"
}
],
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-7006
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #7714 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date