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CVE-2020-8908

Reference to the description:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8908

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.
Last updated date:
08/02/2023
Type:
exploit
Confidence:
HIGH
Date of publishing:
07/20/2021
Reference url to background

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMGOOGLEGUAVA-1015415

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