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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-8908

A temp directory creation vulnerability exists in all versions of Guava, allowing an attacker with access to the machine to potentially access data in a temporary directory created by the Guava API com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir().

LOW 3.3EPSS 0.98%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.98%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A temp directory creation vulnerability exists in all versions of Guava, allowing an attacker with access to the machine to potentially access data in a temporary directory created by the Guava API com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir(). By default, on unix-like systems, the created directory is world-readable (readable by an attacker with access to the system). The method in question has been marked @Deprecated in versions 30.0 and later and should not be used. For Android developers, we recommend choosing a temporary directory API provided by Android, such as context.getCacheDir(). For other Java developers, we recommend migrating to the Java 7 API java.nio.file.Files.createTempDirectory() which explicitly configures permissions of 700, or configuring the Java runtime's java.io.tmpdir system property to point to a location whose permissions are appropriately configured.

CVSS 3.1
3.3 LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.98% probability · 60th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-378, CWE-732
Affected
google/guava · quarkus/quarkus · oracle/commerce guided search · oracle/communications cloud native core network slice selection function · oracle/communications pricing design center · oracle/data integrator · oracle/nosql database · oracle/peoplesoft enterprise peopletools · oracle/retail customer management and segmentation foundation · oracle/weblogic server · oracle/communications cloud native core network repository function · oracle/primavera unifier · netapp/active iq unified manager
Source
cve-coordination@google.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.