Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions
CVE-2022-21126

7.3HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Samtools

Status
Com.github.samtools:htsjdk
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 November 2022

What is CVE-2022-21126?

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.

Affected Version(s)

com.github.samtools:htsjdk < 3.0.1

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMGITHUBSAMTOOLS...
https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk/commit/4a4024a97ee3e87...
https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk/pull/1617

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.3
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Jonathan Leitschuh
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