CVE-2023-1521 (GCVE-0-2023-1521)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-26 11:15 – Updated: 2024-11-26 20:45
VLAI
Title
Local Privilege Escalation in sccache
Summary
On Linux the sccache client can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local sccache server, by preloading the code in a shared library passed to LD_PRELOAD. If the server is run as root (which is the default when installing the snap package https://snapcraft.io/sccache ), this means a user running the sccache client can get root privileges.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla sccache Affected: 0 , < 0.4.0 (semver)
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Credits
Paolo Tranquilli (@redsun82)
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