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Vulnerability · Published Oct 20, 2023 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2023-46277

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity privilege mismanagement in the rust-pleaser package (Debian). Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 76.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

please (aka pleaser) through 0.5.4 allows privilege escalation through the TIOCSTI and/or TIOCLINUX ioctl. (If both TIOCSTI and TIOCLINUX are disabled, this cannot be exploited.)

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12rust-pleaserno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2023-46277
Debian:13rust-pleaserno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2023-46277
Debian:14rust-pleaserno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2023-46277
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSrust-pleaserno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-46277
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSrust-pleaserno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-46277
Ubuntu:25.10rust-pleaserno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-46277
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSrust-pleaserno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-46277
Ubuntu:26.10rust-pleaserno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-46277

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

Weakness: CWE-269

References