theshit's Improper Privilege Dropping Allows Local Privilege Escalation via Command Re-execution

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-21882",
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    "title": "theshit's Improper Privilege Dropping Allows Local Privilege Escalation via Command Re-execution",
    "summary": "theshit is a command-line utility that automatically detects and fixes common mistakes in shell commands. Prior to version 0.2.0, improper privilege dropping allows local privilege escalation via command re-execution. This issue has been patched in version 0.2.0.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:37.226208359Z",
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      "references": [
        "https://github.com/AsfhtgkDavid/theshit/security/advisories/GHSA-2j3p-gqw5-g59j",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/21xxx/CVE-2026-21882.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-21882",
        "https://github.com/AsfhtgkDavid/theshit/commit/5293957b119e55212dce2c6dcbaf1d7eb794602a"
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  "published_at": "2026-03-02T19:17:22.22+00:00"
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