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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-1521 (CVE-2023-1521)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-11-26 12:15 – Updated: 2026-10-17 09:17 – Source website

Details

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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-1521	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1521	REPORT
	https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x7fr-pg8f-93f5	REPORT
	https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-20…	REPORT

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  "modified": "2026-10-17T09:17:19Z",
  "published": "2024-11-26T12:15:00Z",
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CVE-2023-1521 (GCVE-0-2023-1521)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-26 11:15 – Updated: 2024-11-26 20:45

Title

Local Privilege Escalation in sccache

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

mozilla CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 38/100 over 679 records in the last 180 days details

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

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Mozilla	sccache	Affected: 0 , < 0.4.0 (semver)
mozilla	sccache	Affected: 0 , < 0.4.0 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:sccache::::::::

Credits

Paolo Tranquilli (@redsun82)

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