CVE-2021-31154: Pleaseedit Project Pleaseedit

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pleaseedit in please before 0.4 uses predictable temporary filenames in /tmp and the target directory. This allows a local attacker to gain full root privileges by staging a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Pleaseedit Project Pleaseedit: before 0.4 (fixed in 0.4)

Published 2021-05-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.