What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-31154

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-05-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-668

Description

pleaseedit in please before 0.4 uses predictable temporary filenames in /tmp and the target directory. This allows a local attacker to gain full root privileges by staging a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Pleaseedit Project Pleaseedit: before 0.4 — fixed in 0.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Pleaseedit Project Pleaseedit 0.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://gitlab.com/edneville/please/-/tree/master/src/bin
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/1
• https://gitlab.com/edneville/please/-/tree/master/src/bin
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/1

Get alerted when CVE-2021-31154 or the next vulnerability affects your stack