Vulnerability · Published Aug 8, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-15824
High 8.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the kotlin package (Ubuntu). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.9% (higher than 80% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.9%top 20.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | kotlin | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15824 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | kotlin | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15824 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | kotlin | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15824 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | kotlin | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15824 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | kotlin | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15824 |
Affected products (as reported)
References
- [groovy-users] 20201205 [SECURITY] CVE-2020-17521: Apache Groovy Information Disclosure mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
- [groovy-dev] 20201205 [SECURITY] CVE-2020-17521: Apache Groovy Information Disclosure mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
- [oss-security] 20201206 [CVE-2020-17521]: Apache Groovy Information Disclosure mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
- [announce] 20201205 [SECURITY] CVE-2020-17521: Apache Groovy Information Disclosure mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
- [groovy-notifications] 20201207 [jira] [Closed] (GROOVY-9824) CVE-2020-17521 Apache Groovy Information Disclosure mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2020/08/06/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q2-2020/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html x_refsource_MISC