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Ubuntu: USN-4955-1 (CVE-2021-31155): Please vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4955-1 (CVE-2021-31155): Please vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/17/2021
Created
05/20/2021
Added
05/18/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-pleaser

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