CVE-2021-31154

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 27, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Apr 14, 2021

Description

pleaseedit in please before 0.4 uses predictable temporary filenames in /tmp and the target directory. This allows a local attacker to gain full root privileges by staging a symlink attack.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://gitlab.com/edneville/please/-/tree/master/src/bin
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/1

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