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CVE-2020-15824

high

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.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/06/1

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-562r-vg33-8x8h

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c43q-5hpj-4crv

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5mcr-gq6c-3hq2

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g3wg-6mcf-8jj6

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-269g-pwp5-87pp

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra9dab34bf8625511f23692ad0fcee2725f782e9aad6c5cdff6cf4465%40%3Cnotifications.groovy.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra12c3e23b021f259a201648005b9946acd7f618a6f32301c97047967%40%3Cusers.groovy.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra12c3e23b021f259a201648005b9946acd7f618a6f32301c97047967%40%3Cdev.groovy.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra12c3e23b021f259a201648005b9946acd7f618a6f32301c97047967%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2020/08/06/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q2-2020/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-08-08

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024