THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-82457 (HIGH 7.8) — su-exec through 0.3 fails to validate numeric user and group identifiers parsed with strtol before assigning to uid_t and gid_t, allowing truncation of out-of-range values to zero. Attackers can supply large numeric identifiers that truncate to root's identifier, causing su-exec
[NVD] CVE-2026-82457 (HIGH 7.8) — su-exec through 0.3 fails to validate numeric user and group identifiers parsed with strtol before assigning to uid_t and gid_t, allowing truncation of out-of-range values to zero. Attackers can supply large numeric identifiers that truncate to root's identifier, causing su-exec
CVE-2026-82457 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2026-08-29T14:16:38.910
su-exec through 0.3 fails to validate numeric user and group identifiers parsed with strtol before assigning to uid_t and gid_t, allowing truncation of out-of-range values to zero. Attackers can supply large numeric identifiers that truncate to root's identifier, causing su-exec to execute target programs with root privileges instea
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-82457cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-82457