CVE-2023-46277

Publication date 20 October 2023

Last updated 23 April 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

please (aka pleaser) through 0.5.4 allows privilege escalation through the TIOCSTI and/or TIOCLINUX ioctl. (If both TIOCSTI and TIOCLINUX are disabled, this cannot be exploited.)

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Why is this CVE high priority?

Local privilege escalation

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
rust-pleaser	26.04 LTS resolute	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	25.10 questing	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored end of standard support
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

sudhackar

PR#69 is stalled (2026-04-20)

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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