THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-82474 (HIGH 7.8) — Sudo through 1.9.17p2 fails to apply intercept policy checks to the execveat system call in ptrace-based intercept mode. Users permitted to run specific commands can execute denied programs by calling execveat directly or through fexecve, bypassing policy enforcement and logging.
[NVD] CVE-2026-82474 (HIGH 7.8) — Sudo through 1.9.17p2 fails to apply intercept policy checks to the execveat system call in ptrace-based intercept mode. Users permitted to run specific commands can execute denied programs by calling execveat directly or through fexecve, bypassing policy enforcement and logging.
CVE-2026-82474 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2026-08-29T17:17:59.910
Sudo through 1.9.17p2 fails to apply intercept policy checks to the execveat system call in ptrace-based intercept mode. Users permitted to run specific commands can execute denied programs by calling execveat directly or through fexecve, bypassing policy enforcement and logging.
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-82474cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-82474