CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-31154
High (7.8) in pleaseedit project pleaseedit. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in pleaser 0.4.0.
pleaseedit in please before 0.4 uses predictable temporary filenames in /tmp and the target directory. This allows a local attacker to gain full root privileges by staging a symlink attack.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 40% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-668
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- pleaseedit_project:pleaseedit
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-pp74-39w2-v4w9 | crates.io | pleaser | <0.4.0 | 0.4.0 |
| RUSTSEC-2021-0102 | crates.io | pleaser | >=0.0.0-0 <0.4.0 | 0.4.0 |