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.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15824
Reference (s):
- https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2020/08/06/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q2-2020/
- URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2020/08/06/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q2-2020/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- URL: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html