CVE-2026-7006 Sublime Text - Privilege Escalation

Sublime Text for Windows through Build 4192 (Sublime Text 4) and Build 3207 (Sublime Text 3) contains a local privilege escalation caused by abuse of the update staging mechanism allowing malicious DLL placement, letting unprivileged local attackers execute code with elevated privileges, exploit requires local access.

CVSS base score 7.3 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
Authentication
Required
EPSS
0.13% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Privilege Escalation
Impact
Privilege Escalation, Remote Code Execution
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
18 September 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-494

Vendor fix

Update to a version later than Build 4192 for Sublime Text 4 or Build 3207 for Sublime Text 3.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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