Weakness (CWE)
CWE-379: Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions
The product creates a temporary file in a directory whose permissions allow unintended actors to determine the file's existence or otherwise access that file.
How to prevent it (3 mitigations)
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Requirements
Many contemporary languages have functions which properly handle this condition. Older C temp file functions are especially susceptible.
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Implementation
Try to store sensitive tempfiles in a directory which is not world readable -- i.e., per-user directories.
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Implementation
Avoid using vulnerable temp file functions.
Source: MITRE CWE-379
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High 7.8
Insights-client: unsafe handling of temporary files and directories
A vulnerability was found in insights-client. This security issue occurs because of insecure file operations or unsafe handling of temporary files and directories that lead to local privilege escalation. Before the insights-client has been registered on the s…
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High 7.8
The C:\Windows\Temp\Agent.Package.Availability\Agent.Package.Availability.exe file is automatically launched as SYSTEM …
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Medium 6.1
Dell Power Manager, Versions 3.3 to 3.14 contains an Improper Access Control vulnerability. A low-privileged malicious …
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Medium 5.5
Use of temporary directory for file creation in `FileBackedOutputStream` in Guava
Use of Java's default temporary directory for file creation in `FileBackedOutputStream` in Google Guava versions 1.0 to 31.1 on Unix systems and Android Ice Cream Sandwich allows other users and apps on the machine with access to the default Java temporary di…
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High 7.8
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for macOS installer (AcroRdrDC_2200220191_MUI.pkg) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability.
Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 23.001.20093 (and earlier) and 20.005.30441 (and earlier) are affected by a Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation in the context of the current …
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High 7.8
Adobe Acrobat Reader Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions Privilege escalation
Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 22.003.20282 (and earlier), 22.003.20281 (and earlier) and 20.005.30418 (and earlier) are affected by a Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation in…
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High 7.8
Adobe Acrobat Reader Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions Privilege escalation
Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 22.003.20282 (and earlier), 22.003.20281 (and earlier) and 20.005.30418 (and earlier) are affected by a Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation in…
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High 7.5
In Keylime before 6.3.0, Revocation Notifier uses a fixed /tmp path for UNIX domain socket which can allow unprivileged…
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Medium 6.1
Adobe Lightroom Classic DLL Hijacking Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Adobe Lightroom Classic 10.3 (and earlier) are affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Offline Lightroom Classic installer. An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges. User interaction is required before…
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Medium 5.5
Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability in io.netty:netty-codec-http
Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework. The package `io.netty:netty-codec-http` prior to version 4.1.77.Final contains an insufficient fix for CVE-2021-21290. When Netty's multipart decoders are used local information…
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Medium 4.7
Dell PowerScale OneFS, 8.2,x, 9.1.0.x, 9.2.1.x, and 9.3.0.x contain a denial of service vulnerability. A local maliciou…
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High 7.8CVE-2022-27772 Public exploit
Temporary Directory Hijacking to Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in org.springframework.boot:spring-boot
spring-boot versions prior to version v2.2.11.RELEASE was vulnerable to temporary directory hijacking. This vulnerability impacted the org.springframework.boot.web.server.AbstractConfigurableWebServerFactory.createTempDir method. NOTE: This vulnerability only…
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Medium 4.2
Adobe Creative Cloud DLL Hijacking Local Application Denial of Service
Adobe Creative Cloud version 5.5 (and earlier) are affected by an Application denial of service vulnerability in the Creative Cloud Desktop installer. An authenticated attacker with root privileges could leverage this vulnerability to achieve denial of servic…
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High 7.3
Adobe Genuine Service Installer Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Adobe Genuine Service versions 7.3 (and earlier) are affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability in the AGSService installer. An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve read / write privileges to execute arbitrary code. User i…
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Medium 5.8
Adobe Digital Editions Installer flaw leads to Local Privilege Escalation
Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.11.187646 (and earlier) are affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Digital Editions installer. An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges. User interaction is required before …
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Medium 6.5
Adobe Digital Editions Installer flaw leads to Arbitrary File System Write
Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.11.187646 (and earlier) are affected by an arbitrary file write vulnerability in the Digital Editions installer. An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to write an arbitrary file to the system. User interaction …
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High 7.4
Adobe Creative Cloud Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability
Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application version 5.4 (and earlier) is affected by a file handling vulnerability that could allow an attacker to arbitrarily overwrite a file. Exploitation of this issue requires local access, administrator privileges and user i…
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Medium 5.8
Adobe Genuine Services insecure file permission could lead to privilege escalation
Adobe Genuine Services version 7.1 (and earlier) is affected by an Insecure file permission vulnerability during installation process. A local authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve privilege escalation in the context of the curre…
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Medium 5.0
Adobe Captivate Installer Creation of Temporary File In Directory With Incorrect Permissions Could Lead To Privilege Escalation
Adobe Captivate version 11.5.5 (and earlier) is affected by an Creation of Temporary File In Directory With Incorrect Permissions vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation in the context of the current user. The attacker must plant a malicious f…
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Medium 6.1
Adobe Creative Cloud Installer Arbitrary File Write
Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application (installer) version 2.4 (and earlier) is affected by an Insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to cause arbitrary file overwriting in the context of the current us…
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Medium 6.2
Adobe Premiere Elements Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Adobe Premiere Elements version 5.2 (and earlier) is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to call functions against the installer to perform high privileged actions. Explo…
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Medium 6.2
Adobe Photoshop Elements Privilege Escalation Vulnerability - symbolic link
Adobe Photoshop Elements version 5.2 (and earlier) is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to call functions against the installer to perform high privileged actions. Expl…
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Medium 6.2
Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions in auto-generated Java, Scala code
OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec. Using `File.createTempFile` in JDK will result in creating and using insecure temporary files that…
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Critical 9.3
Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions in the OpenAPI-Generator online generator
Openapi generator is a java tool which allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec. openapi-generator-online creates insecure temporary folders with File.createT…
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Medium 6.3
Insecure temporary directory usage in frontend build functionality of Vaadin 14 and 15-19
Insecure temporary directory usage in frontend build functionality of `com.vaadin:flow-server` versions 2.0.9 through 2.5.2 (Vaadin 14.0.3 through Vaadin 14.5.2), 3.0 prior to 6.0 (Vaadin 15 prior to 19), and 6.0.0 through 6.0.5 (Vaadin 19.0.0 through 19.0.4)…
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Medium 6.3
Insecure temporary directory usage in frontend build functionality of Vaadin 14 and 15-19
Insecure temporary directory usage in frontend build functionality of com.vaadin:flow-server versions 2.0.9 through 2.5.2 (Vaadin 14.0.3 through Vaadin 14.5.2), 3.0 prior to 6.0 (Vaadin 15 prior to 19), and 6.0.0 through 6.0.5 (Vaadin 19.0.0 through 19.0.4) a…
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Medium 4.0
Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions in the OpenAPI Generator Maven plugin
OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries, server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec. Using `File.createTempFile` in JDK will result in creating and using insecure temporary files that can leave applic…
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Medium 6.2
Local information disclosure via system temporary directory
Eclipse Jersey 2.28 to 2.33 and Eclipse Jersey 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 contains a local information disclosure vulnerability. This is due to the use of the File.createTempFile which creates a file inside of the system temporary directory with the permissions: -rw-r--r…
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High 7.8
Adobe Digital Editions Arbitrary file system write vulnerability
Adobe Digital Editions version 4.5.11.187245 (and earlier) is affected by a Privilege Escalation vulnerability during installation. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary file system write in the context of the curr…
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High 8.8
Local privilege escalation through system temporary directory
In Gradle before version 7.0, on Unix-like systems, the system temporary directory can be created with open permissions that allow multiple users to create and delete files within it. Gradle builds could be vulnerable to a local privilege escalation from an a…
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Medium 6.1
Adobe Creative Cloud installer arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability
Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application version 5.3 (and earlier) is affected by a file handling vulnerability that could allow an attacker to cause arbitrary file overwriting. Exploitation of this issue requires physical access and user interaction.
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Medium 5.3
Generator Web Application: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability via System Temp Directory
swagger-codegen is an open-source project which contains a template-driven engine to generate documentation, API clients and server stubs in different languages by parsing your OpenAPI / Swagger definition. In swagger-codegen before version 2.4.19, on Unix li…
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Low 3.0
DataDog API Client contains a Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability
The Java client for the Datadog API before version 1.0.0-beta.9 has a local information disclosure of sensitive information downloaded via the API using the API Client. The Datadog API is executed on a unix-like system with multiple users. The API is used to …
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Medium 6.2
Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Netty on Unix-Like systems due temporary files
Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. In Netty before version 4.1.59.Final there is a vulnerability on Unix-like systems involving an…
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Medium 5.5
Information Disclosure in Apache Groovy
Apache Groovy provides extension methods to aid with creating temporary directories. Prior to this fix, Groovy's implementation of those extension methods was using a now superseded Java JDK method call that is potentially not secure on some operating systems…
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High 7.0
Local Temp Directory Hijacking Vulnerability
In Eclipse Jetty versions 1.0 thru 9.4.32.v20200930, 10.0.0.alpha1 thru 10.0.0.beta2, and 11.0.0.alpha1 thru 11.0.0.beta2O, on Unix like systems, the system's temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. A collocated user can observe the pr…
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High 7.5
Code injection in Apache Ant
As mitigation for CVE-2020-1945 Apache Ant 1.10.8 changed the permissions of temporary files it created so that only the current user was allowed to access them. Unfortunately the fixcrlf task deleted the temporary file and created a new one without said prot…
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Medium 6.5
World writable root owned lock file created in user controllable location
Apport creates a world writable lock file with root ownership in the world writable /var/lock/apport directory. If the apport/ directory does not exist (this is not uncommon as /var/lock is a tmpfs), it will create the directory, otherwise it will simply cont…
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Unscored —
On Windows endpoints, the SecureConnector agent is vulnerable to privilege escalation whereby an authenticated unprivileged user can obtain administrator privileges on the endpoint because files are created in a folder with incorrect privileges
On Windows endpoints, the SecureConnector agent must run under the local SYSTEM account or another administrator account in order to enable full functionality of the agent. The typical configuration is for the agent to run as a Windows service under the local…
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Medium 6.1
Packstack: red hat openstack: packstack: unauthorized system modification via insecure answer file creation
A flaw was found in PackStack. This vulnerability allows a local user to modify deployed systems by changing the answer file, which is created in insecure directories such as /tmp or the current working directory. This insecure file creation could lead to una…