Pi: Predictable temporary extension install paths allow local privilege escalation on shared Linux hosts
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.3epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 98% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness. From 0.74.0 until 0.78.1, Pi versions with temporary npm or git extension package installs used predictable paths under the operating system temporary directory. On Linux-based multi-user systems, a local attacker who can write to the shared temporary directory could prepare the expected package location before another user runs pi with a temporary extension package source. Pi could then load attacker-controlled extension code in the victim user's process. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.78.1.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
earendil-works · piReferences
https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/commit/a98e087e5d08ea2a536bf73dbb0aebb87c3ef72ehttps://github.com/earendil-works/pi/commit/ea3465a8e371a12d0167a06b60f93878e3a3df44https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/5345https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/releases/tag/v0.78.1https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/security/advisories/GHSA-jfgx-wxx8-mp94