CVE-2021-22572 (GCVE-0-2021-22572)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-29 15:05 – Updated: 2025-04-21 13:54
VLAI?
Summary
On unix-like systems, the system temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. The root cause is File.createTempFile creates files in the the system temporary directory with world readable permissions. Any sensitive information written to theses files is visible to all other local users on unix-like systems. We recommend upgrading past commit https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/pull/969
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-377 - Insecure Temporary File
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Google LLC Data-Transfer-Project Affected: unspecified , < 0.3.57 (custom)
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Credits
Jonathan Leitschuh
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