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CWE-377: DEPRECATED: Insecure Temporary File

Class Deprecated Mapping prohibited

This entry has been deprecated. It was focused
only on the affected resource (temporary file) and not the
behavior or mistake that produced the insecure temporary
file, which caused confusion and incorrect
mappings.

Source: MITRE CWE-377

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  • High 7.0

    Enter Software Iperius Backup Backup Service temp file

    A vulnerability was detected in Enter Software Iperius Backup up to 8.7.3. Affected is an unknown function of the file C:\ProgramData\IperiusBackup\Jobs\ of the component Backup Service. Performing a manipulation results in creation of temporary file with ins…

  • Medium 4.4
    CVE-2026-25645 Public exploit

    Requests has Insecure Temp File Reuse in its extract_zipped_paths() utility function

    Requests is a HTTP library. Prior to version 2.33.0, the `requests.utils.extract_zipped_paths()` utility function uses a predictable filename when extracting files from zip archives into the system temporary directory. If the target file already exists, it is…

  • Medium 6.2

    A privacy issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.5, m…

  • High 7.0

    An Insecure Temporary File vulnerability in openSUSE sdbootutil allows local users to pre-create a directory to achieve…

  • Medium 5.5

    A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3, macOS Sequ…

  • Medium 5.5

    An issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files. This issue is fixed in macOS Tahoe 26.3. An app may b…

  • Medium 6.7

    Quartus® Prime Standard and Quartus® Prime Lite Security Advisory

    Insecure Temporary File vulnerability in Altera Quartus Prime Standard  Installer (SFX) on Windows, Altera Quartus Prime Lite  Installer (SFX) on Windows allows Explore for Predictable Temporary File Names.This issue affects Quartus Prime Standard: from 23.1 …

  • Medium 6.7

    Quartus Prime Pro Edition Advisory

    Insecure Temporary File vulnerability in Altera Quartus Prime Pro  Installer (SFX) on Windows allows : Use of Predictable File Names.This issue affects Quartus Prime Pro: from 24.1 through 25.1.1.

  • Medium 4.9

    Umbraco Vulnerable to Improper File Access and Credential Exposure through Dictionary Import Functionality

    Umbraco is an ASP.NET CMS. Due to unsafe handling and deletion of temporary files in versions 10.0.0 through 13.12.0, during the dictionary upload process an attacker with access to the backoffice can trigger predictable requests to temporary file paths. The …

  • Critical 9.3

    Insecure Temporary File Creation in Robocode's AutoExtract Component

    An insecure temporary file creation vulnerability exists in the AutoExtract component of Robocode version 1.9.3.6. The createTempFile method fails to securely create temporary files, allowing attackers to exploit race conditions and potentially execute arbitr…

  • High 7.8

    Dell Alienware Command Center 6.x (AWCC), versions prior to 6.10.15.0, contains an Insecure Temporary File vulnerabilit…

  • Medium 6.6

    Dell Alienware Command Center 6.x (AWCC), versions prior to 6.10.15.0, contains an Insecure Temporary File vulnerabilit…

  • High 7.1

    World-Writable NLTK Cache Directory Vulnerability in run-llama/llama_index

    The llama_index library version 0.12.33 sets the NLTK data directory to a subdirectory of the codebase by default, which is world-writable in multi-user environments. This configuration allows local users to overwrite, delete, or corrupt NLTK data files, lead…

  • Medium 6.8

    bash-git-prompt 2.6.1 through 2.7.1 insecurely uses the /tmp/git-index-private$$ file, which has a predictable name.

  • High 8.5

    Vasion Print (formerly PrinterLogic) Local Privilege Escalation via Insecure Temporary File Handling

    Vasion Print (formerly PrinterLogic) Virtual Appliance Host versions prior to 25.1.102 and Application versions prior to 25.1.1413 (Windows client deployments) contain an insecure temporary-file handling vulnerability in the PrinterInstallerClient components.…

  • Medium 4.5

    Mihomo Party Socket sysproxy.ts enableSysProxy temp file

    A vulnerability was detected in Mihomo Party up to 1.8.1 on macOS. Affected is the function enableSysProxy of the file src/main/sys/sysproxy.ts of the component Socket Handler. The manipulation results in creation of temporary file with insecure permissions. …

  • Low 3.9

    pycode-browser before version 1.0 is prone to a predictable temporary file vulnerability.

  • High 7.1

    Vulnerability when creating log files in github.com/golang/glog

    When logs are written to a widely-writable directory (the default), an unprivileged attacker may predict a privileged process's log file path and pre-create a symbolic link to a sensitive file in its place. When that privileged process runs, it will follow th…

  • Medium 5.5

    Active Support Possibly Discloses Locally Encrypted Files

    ActiveSupport::EncryptedFile writes contents that will be encrypted to a temporary file. The temporary file's permissions are defaulted to the user's current `umask` settings, meaning that it's possible for other users on the same system to read the contents …

  • High 7.3

    Fixed temporary file path in aeon-checks allows fixing of disk encryption key

    Insecure creation of temporary files allows local users on systems with non-default configurations to cause denial of service or set the encryption key for a filesystem

  • Medium 4.5

    chidiwilliams buzz model_loader.py download_model temp file

    A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in chidiwilliams buzz 1.1.0. This vulnerability affects the function download_model of the file buzz/model_loader.py. The manipulation leads to insecure temporary file. It is possible to launch the attack on…

  • Medium 6.8

    Denial of Service vulnerability in ESET products for macOS

    Products for macOS enables a user logged on to the system to perform a denial-of-service attack, which could be misused to disable the protection of the ESET security product and cause general system slow-down.

  • High 7.8

    Point B Ltd Getscreen Agent MSI Installer getscreen.msi temp file

    A vulnerability was detected in Point B Ltd Getscreen Agent up to 2.19.6/3.9.4 on Windows. This affects an unknown function of the file getscreen.msi of the component MSI Installer. The manipulation results in creation of temporary file with insecure permissi…

  • Medium 5.1

    In Maxima through 5.47.0 before 51704c, the plotting facilities make use of predictable names under /tmp. Thus, the con…

  • Low 2.8

    If kernel headers need to be extracted, bpftrace will attempt to load them from a temporary directory. An unprivileged …

  • Medium 6.5

    A privacy issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.…

  • Low 3.3

    Spring Cloud Contract vulnerable to local information disclosure

    In Spring Cloud Contract, versions 4.1.x prior to 4.1.1, versions 4.0.x prior to 4.0.5, and versions 3.1.x prior to 3.1.10, test execution is vulnerable to local information disclosure via temporary directory created with unsafe permissions through the shaded…

  • Medium 6.0

    Temporary data passed between application components by Budgie Extras Windows Previews could potentially be viewed or m…

  • Medium 6.0

    Temporary data passed between application components by Budgie Extras WeatherShow applet could potentially be viewed or…

  • Medium 6.0

    Temporary data passed between application components by Budgie Extras Takeabreak applet could potentially be viewed or …

  • Medium 6.0

    Temporary data passed between application components by Budgie Extras Window Shuffler applet could potentially be viewe…

  • Medium 6.0

    Temporary data passed between application components by Budgie Extras Clockworks applet could potentially be viewed or …

  • Low 3.6

    Jenkins temporary uploaded file created with insecure permissions

    In Jenkins 2.423 and earlier, LTS 2.414.1 and earlier, processing file uploads using MultipartFormDataParser creates temporary files in the default system temporary directory with the default permissions for newly created files, potentially allowing attackers…

  • High 7.1

    Insecure Temporary File in HuTool

    Hutool v5.8.17 and below was discovered to contain an information disclosure vulnerability via the File.createTempFile() function at /core/io/FileUtil.java.

  • Medium 4.7

    Insecure Temporary File in huggingface/transformers

    Insecure Temporary File in GitHub repository huggingface/transformers prior to 4.30.0.

  • Medium 6.4

    Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs (version 3.11.4 and prior) and SupportAssist for Business PCs (version 3.2.0 and prior)…

  • Medium 5.5

    Java Merge-sort Insecure Temporary File vulnerability

    Versions of the package com.fasterxml.util:java-merge-sort before 1.1.0 are vulnerable to Insecure Temporary File in the StdTempFileProvider() function in StdTempFileProvider.java, which uses the permissive File.createTempFile() function, exposing temporary f…

  • Medium 6.3

    devent globalpom-utils FileResourceManagerProvider.java createTmpDir temp file

    A vulnerability has been found in devent globalpom-utils up to 4.5.0 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function createTmpDir of the file globalpomutils-fileresources/src/main/java/com/anrisoftware/globalpom/fileresourcemanager/FileRes…

  • Low 3.1

    centic9 jgit-cookbook temp file

    A vulnerability was found in centic9 jgit-cookbook. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to insecure temporary file. The attack can be initiated remotely. The name of the patch is b8cb29b43dc7047…

  • Medium 6.5

    Previously Firefox for macOS and Linux would download temporary files to a user-specific directory in <code>/tmp</code>…