Information Exposure Affecting pleaser package, versions <0.4.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-PLEASER-1584117
  • published11 Sept 2021
  • disclosed27 May 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 May 2021

CVE-2021-31153  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pleaser to version 0.4.0 or higher.

Overview

pleaser is a polite regex-first sudo alternative.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. pleaser allows a local unprivileged attacker to gain knowledge about the existence of files or directories in privileged locations via the search_path function, the --check option, or the -d option.

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