High
Security advisory
The replay-sorcery program in ReplaySorcery 0.4.0 through 0.5.0, when using the default setuid-root configuration, allows a local attacker to escalate privileges to root by specifying video output paths in privileged locations.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-26936
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The replay-sorcery program in ReplaySorcery 0.4.0 through 0.5.0, when using the default setuid-root configuration, allows a local attacker to escalate privileges to root by specifying video output paths in privileged locations.
osv:CVE-2021-26936
Complete source record
{
"id": "fea7ae5c66bfd375a8b9ef505ab1bf8216b8e13f4790ce400e936bb8edb3c54a",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-26936",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2021-26936",
"summary": "The replay-sorcery program in ReplaySorcery 0.4.0 through 0.5.0, when using the default setuid-root configuration, allows a local attacker to escalate privileges to root by specifying video output paths in privileged locations.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-26936",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2021-26936",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2021-26936"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/matanui159/replaysorcery",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "6352f612d73baaebe1a0286ce3a6182c78330fe0"
},
{
"last_affected": "2b3eb35a9f2ad00afd09e26e4e2a988baac4dbaf"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:replaysorcery_project:replaysorcery:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0.4.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "0.5.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"0.5.0",
"0.4.2",
"0.4.1",
"0.4.0"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-26936.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:41.383921397Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/matanui159/ReplaySorcery/releases"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2021-26936",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 384503,
"published_at": "2021-02-10T18:15:13.017+00:00"
}