FKIE_CVE-2023-1521

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-11-26 12:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:28
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x7fr-pg8f-93f5Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-046_ScCacheExploit
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla sccache *
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