CVE-2026-7006

HIGHPre-NVD 7.37.3—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 7.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-18. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated
7.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: —CVSS: 7.3Exploit: Elevated riskExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

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.

CVSS v3
7.3
EG Score
7.3(high)
EG Risk
49(Track*)
EG Risk 49/100SSVC: Track*

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity73% × 45%
Exploitation40% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Watch closely — could escalate to Attend.
EPSS PROB
—
EPSS %ILE
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KEV
Not listed

Published

September 18, 2026

Last Modified

September 18, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Sep 18, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

Sublime Text 4192/3207 Local Privilege Escalation via Update Staging Mechanism | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sublime-text-4192-3207-local-privilege-escalation-via-update-staging-mechanism
generic

Sublime Text - Text Editing, Done Right

https://www.sublimetext.com/
generic

Sublime Text Updater LPE · GitHub

https://gist.github.com/anthok/765b3ca0223fabee38f51d8f832e2175

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-7006(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 7× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-09-19 05:48 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-09-19 05:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-18 17:26 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-09-18 17:06 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-18 16:27 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-09-18 15:24 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-18 15:24 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2026-7006?
CVE-2026-7006 is a high vulnerability published on September 18, 2026. 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…
When was CVE-2026-7006 disclosed?
CVE-2026-7006 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 18, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-7006?
CVE-2026-7006 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.3 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-7006?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-7006, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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