CVE-2020-15824

HIGH

JetBrains Kotlin 1.4-M1-1.4-RC - Privilege Escalation via System Temp Directory Script Cache

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In JetBrains Kotlin from 1.4-M1 to 1.4-RC (as Kotlin 1.3.7x 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.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 6.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (5)
jetbrains/kotlin 1.4.0 milestone1 (4 CPE variants)
oracle/banking_extensibility_workbench 14.2
oracle/banking_extensibility_workbench 14.3
oracle/banking_extensibility_workbench 14.5
oracle/communications_cloud_native_core_policy 1.14.0
Published Aug 08, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026