CVE-2023-1521 — Local Privilege Escalation in sccache
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 s…
Published: 2024-11-26 · CVSS: 7.8 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7