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High severity · published Aug 8, 2020
CVE-2020-15824
In JetBrains Kotlin from 1.4-M1 to 1.4-RC (as Kotlin 1.3.7x is not affected by the issue
8.8
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In JetBrains Kotlin from 1.4-M1 to 1.4-RC (as Kotlin 1.3.7x is not affected by the issue. Fixed version is 1.4.0) there is a script-cache privilege escalation vulnerability due to kotlin-main-kts cached scripts in the system temp directory, which is shared by all users by default.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BE
Banking Extensibility Workbench · Oracle
14.2; 14.3; 14.5 · source: NVD
CC
Communications Cloud Native Core Policy · Oracle
1.14.0 · source: NVD
KO
Kotlin · Jetbrains
1.4.0; 1.4.0; 1.4.0; 1.4.0 · source: NVD
Affected product
KO
Kotlin
Jetbrains
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15824
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15824
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/06/1
Vendor Advisory
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2020/08/06/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q2-2020/
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra12c3e23b021f259a201648005b9946acd7f618a6f32301c97047967%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra12c3e23b021f259a201648005b9946acd7f618a6f32301c97047967%40%3Cdev.groovy.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra12c3e23b021f259a201648005b9946acd7f618a6f32301c97047967%40%3Cusers.groovy.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra9dab34bf8625511f23692ad0fcee2725f782e9aad6c5cdff6cf4465%40%3Cnotifications.groovy.apache.org%3E
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