CVE-2022-21126

Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions

CVSS 7.3 HIGHEPSS 0.7%

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 7.3EPSS 0.7%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

29 Nov 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected products

n/a · com.github.samtools:htsjdk

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References

https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk/commit/4a4024a97ee3e87096df6ad9b22c8260bd527772 https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk/pull/1617 https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMGITHUBSAMTOOLS-3149901