CVE-2026-7006

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Sublime Text 4 versions prior to Build 4193 Sublime Text 3 versions prior to Build 3208

Description A local privilege escalation issue exists in the update staging mechanism. An unprivileged local attacker can place a malicious DLL in the user-writable staging directory located under %LOCALAPPDATA%. By marking the file as read-only to prevent cleanup, the attacker can trick the elevated installer into copying the DLL into the protected installation directory. This results in the execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges when a higher-privileged user launches the application.

Recommendations Update Sublime Text 4 to Build 4193 or later. Update Sublime Text 3 to Build 3208 or later.