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high 7.8

CVE-2017-15288 json

High severity vulnerability that affects org.scala-lang:scala-compiler

published 2017-11-15 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-qvxv-pmq9-4q7g , EUVD-2018-0669

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The compilation daemon in Scala before 2.10.7, 2.11.x before 2.11.12, and 2.12.x before 2.12.4 uses weak permissions for private files in /tmp/scala-devel/${USER:shared}/scalac-compile-server-port, which allows local users to write to arbitrary class files and consequently gain privileges.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.scala-lang:scala-compiler 2.10.7, 2.11.12, 2.12.4
  • scala-lang scala 2.10.7, 2.11.12, 2.12.4
  • scala Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.11.12-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15288

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-15288 updated cvss 6.7

scala: Privilege escalation in Scala compilation daemon

  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 scala-library scala-library Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 camel-scala camel-scala, scala-library scala-library, scala-compiler scala-compiler Red Hat Software Collections rh-scala210-scala, rh-scala210-ant-scala, rh-scala210-scala-swing, rh-scala210-scala-apidoc
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 8 scala-library scala-library Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 10 scala-library scala-library, scala-compiler scala-compiler Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 scala-library scala-library Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 scala-library scala-library Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 scala-library scala-library Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 camel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.scala-lang:scala-compiler
<2.10.7
>=2.11.0, <2.11.12
>=2.12.0, <2.12.4
2.10.7
2.11.12
2.12.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

Sources

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