CVE-2023-1521 (GCVE-0-2023-1521)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-26 11:15 – Updated: 2024-11-26 20:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-26 20:35 UTC
CWE
- CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-20… | third-party-advisory |
| https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x7fr-pg8f-93f5 | vendor-advisory |
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