CVE-2024-4030
If you’re not using Windows or haven’t changed the temporary directory location then you aren’t affected by this vulnerability.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.30%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
On Windows a directory returned by tempfile.mkdtemp() would not always have permissions set to restrict reading and writing to the temporary directory by other users, instead usually inheriting the correct permissions from the default location. Alternate configurations or users without a profile directory may not have the intended permissions. If you’re not using Windows or haven’t changed the temporary directory location then you aren’t affected by this vulnerability. On other platforms the returned directory is consistently readable and writable only by the current user. This issue was caused by Python not supporting Unix permissions on Windows. The fix adds support for Unix “700” for the mkdir function on Windows which is used by mkdtemp() to ensure the newly created directory has the proper permissions.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.30% probability · 23th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-276
- Source
- cna@python.org
EPSS 0.3% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/35c799d79177b962ddace2fa068101465570a29a
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5130731c9e779b97d00a24f54cdce73ce9975dfd
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/66f8bb76a15e64a1bb7688b177ed29e26230fdee
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6d0850c4c8188035643586ab4d8ec2468abd699e
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/81939dad77001556c527485d31a2d0f4a759033e
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8ed546679524140d8282175411fd141fe7df070d
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/91e3669e01245185569d09e9e6e11641282971ee
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/94591dca510c796c7d40e9b4167ea56f2fdf28ca
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c8f868dc52f98011d0f9b459b6487920bfb0ac4d
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d86b49411753bf2c83291e3a14ae43fefded2f84
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e1dfa978b1ad210d551385ad8073ec6154f53763
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/eb29e2f5905da93333d1ce78bc98b151e763ff46
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/118486
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/PRGS5OR3N3PNPT4BMV2VAGN5GMUI5636/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240705-0005/
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/35c799d79177b962ddace2fa068101465570a29a
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5130731c9e779b97d00a24f54cdce73ce9975dfd
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/66f8bb76a15e64a1bb7688b177ed29e26230fdee
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6d0850c4c8188035643586ab4d8ec2468abd699e
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/81939dad77001556c527485d31a2d0f4a759033e
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8ed546679524140d8282175411fd141fe7df070d
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/91e3669e01245185569d09e9e6e11641282971ee
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/94591dca510c796c7d40e9b4167ea56f2fdf28ca
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c8f868dc52f98011d0f9b459b6487920bfb0ac4d
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d86b49411753bf2c83291e3a14ae43fefded2f84
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e1dfa978b1ad210d551385ad8073ec6154f53763
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/eb29e2f5905da93333d1ce78bc98b151e763ff46
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/118486
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/PRGS5OR3N3PNPT4BMV2VAGN5GMUI5636/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240705-0005/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.