FKIE_CVE-2022-21126

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-11-29 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:25
Severity
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
report@snyk.iohttps://github.com/samtools/htsjdk/commit/4a4024a97ee3e87096df6ad9b22c8260bd527772Patch, Third Party Advisory
report@snyk.iohttps://github.com/samtools/htsjdk/pull/1617Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
report@snyk.iohttps://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMGITHUBSAMTOOLS-3149901Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk/commit/4a4024a97ee3e87096df6ad9b22c8260bd527772Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk/pull/1617Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMGITHUBSAMTOOLS-3149901Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
samtools htsjdk *
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T04:25:34.340",
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