🛡️ CVE-2021-31154 — pleaser

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-340 OSV
8.0
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Description

Permissions bypass in pleaser

pleaseedit in pleaser before 0.4.0 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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2021-31154 is recorded against 1 package.

  • pleaser

Timeline and source

Published on 25 August 2021 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
crates.io (Web)
gitlab.com (Web)
gitlab.com (Web)
rustsec.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-340
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-08-25
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
pleaser — —

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