Vulnerability CVE-2020-15824
Published: 2020-08-08

Description:
In JetBrains Kotlin from 1.4-M1 to 1.4-RC (as Kotlin 1.3.70 is not affected by the issue. Fixed version is 1.4.0) there is a script-cache privilege escalation vulnerability due to kotlin-main-kts cached scripts in the system temp directory, which is shared by all users by default.

Type:

CWE-269

 (Improper Privilege Management)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.5/10
6.4/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Jetbrains -> Kotlin 

 References:
https://blog.jetbrains.com
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2020/08/06/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q2-2020/
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