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CVE-2023-1521

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2024-11-26 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

On Linux the sccache client can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local sccache server, by preloading the code in a shared library passed to LD_PRELOAD. If the server is run as root (which is the default when installing the snap package https://snapcraft.io/sccache ), this means a user running the sccache client can get root privileges.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla Sccache

Weakness Type

CWE-426

References