# CVE-2023-46277: please (aka pleaser) through 0.5.4 allows privilege escalation through the TIOCSTI and/or TIOCLINUX ioctl.

- Also known as: RUSTSEC-2023-0066, GHSA-CGF8-H3FP-H956
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-10-20 · Updated: 2024-09-12

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- pleaser (crates.io): from 0.0.0-0
- pleaser (crates.io): through 0.5.4

## 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.)

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, pleaser, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [crates.io packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/crates.io.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://gitlab.com/edneville/please/-/issues/13
- https://gitlab.com/edneville/please/-/merge_requests/69#note_1594254575
- https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/pull/1798
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0066.html

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