CVE-2022-21126 (GCVE-0-2022-21126)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-29 16:50 – Updated: 2025-04-24 18:34
VLAI?
Title
Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions
Summary
The package com.github.samtools:htsjdk before 3.0.1 are vulnerable to Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions due to the createTempDir() function in util/IOUtil.java not checking for the existence of the temporary directory before attempting to create it.
Severity ?
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a com.github.samtools:htsjdk Affected: unspecified , < 3.0.1 (custom)
Date Public ?
2022-11-29 00:00
Credits
Jonathan Leitschuh
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