Security Advisory

CVE-2020-15824

8.8
HIGH

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date August 8, 2020
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory