CVE-2020-8908
Temp directory permission issue in Guava
Record summary
CVE-2020-8908 has a selected CVSS score of 3.3 (low).
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.
Affected products and versions
2| Product | Source | Version range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Default status: unaffected | CVE List | 1.0 to < 32.0 | affected |
com.google.guava:guavaBrowse Maven / com.google.guava:guava | GitHub Advisory | Before 32.0.0-android · Fixed in 32.0.0-android | affected |