CVE-2026-21882

theshit's Improper Privilege Dropping Allows Local Privilege Escalation via Command Re-execution

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Mar 2, 2026
Updated: Mar 2, 2026
Reserved: Jan 5, 2026

Description

theshit is a command-line utility that automatically detects and fixes common mistakes in shell commands. Prior to version 0.2.0, improper privilege dropping allows local privilege escalation via command re-execution. This issue has been patched in version 0.2.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.4 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-273 Improper Check for Dropped Privileges
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Affected Products

Product	Versions
theshitAsfhtgkDavid	< 0.2.0Affected

References

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