Advisories for Cargo/Theshit package

Vulnerability Type: Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) / Improper Privilege Management / Arbitrary Command Execution. The application automatically re-executes the previously failed command but does not properly drop elevated privileges during this process. When the tool is executed with sudo or otherwise runs with an effective UID of root, it records the last executed command and attempts to rerun it. However, the application fails to restore the original unprivileged user context …

Vulnerability Type: Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) / Arbitrary Code Execution. The application loads custom Python rules and configuration files from user-writable locations (e.g., ~/.config/theshit/) without validating ownership or permissions when executed with elevated privileges. If the tool is invoked with sudo or otherwise runs with an effective UID of root, it continues to trust configuration files originating from the unprivileged user's environment. This allows a local attacker to inject arbitrary …