CVE-2021-31155

Publication date 5 May 2021

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Failure to normalize the umask in please before 0.4 allows a local attacker to gain full root privileges if they are allowed to execute at least one command.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
rust-pleaser 22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Fixed 0.4.1-1~21.04.2
20.10 groovy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

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

References

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