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CWE-379

Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions

BaseIncompleteLikelihood: Low

Description

The product creates a temporary file in a directory whose permissions allow unintended actors to determine the file's existence or otherwise access that file.

On some operating systems, the fact that the temporary file exists may be apparent to any user with sufficient privileges to access that directory. Since the file is visible, the application that is using the temporary file could be known. If one has access to list the processes on the system, the attacker has gained information about what the user is doing at that time. By correlating this with the applications the user is running, an attacker could potentially discover what a user's actions are. From this, higher levels of security could be breached.

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CVEs mapped to this weakness (68)

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  • CVE-2023-40438MedJan 10, 2024
    risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00

    An issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7. An app may be able to access edited photos saved to a temporary directory.

  • CVE-2021-28623MedJun 28, 2021
    risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00

    Adobe Premiere Elements version 5.2 (and earlier) is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to call functions against the installer to perform high privileged actions. Exploitation of this…

  • CVE-2021-28597MedJun 28, 2021
    risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00

    Adobe Photoshop Elements version 5.2 (and earlier) is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to call functions against the installer to perform high privileged actions. Exploitation of this…

  • CVE-2026-42191MedMay 12, 2026
    risk 0.35cvss 6.5epss 0.00

    OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol is the OTLP (OpenTelemetry Protocol) exporter implementation. From 1.8.0 to 1.15.2, the OTLP disk retry feature in OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol silently fell back to Path.GetTempPath() when…

  • CVE-2026-50544MedAug 13, 2026
    risk 0.34cvss 6.3epss 0.00

    NortheBridge/luminalshine is a Sunshine-compatible game stream host for Moonlight. Prior to version 26.05.0-rc4, a latent gap exists on a default install, the file at `src/platform/windows/misc.cpp` lives at `C:\ProgramData\LuminalShine\config\apps.json` and is created by the…

  • CVE-2021-36002MedSep 1, 2021
    risk 0.33cvss 5.0epss 0.01

    Adobe Captivate version 11.5.5 (and earlier) is affected by an Creation of Temporary File In Directory With Incorrect Permissions vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation in the context of the current user. The attacker must plant a malicious file in a particular…

  • CVE-2021-21290MedFeb 8, 2021
    risk 0.33cvss 6.2epss 0.02

    Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. In Netty before version 4.1.59.Final there is a vulnerability on Unix-like systems involving an insecure temp file.…

  • CVE-2022-23163MedApr 12, 2022
    risk 0.31cvss 4.7epss 0.00

    Dell PowerScale OneFS, 8.2,x, 9.1.0.x, 9.2.1.x, and 9.3.0.x contain a denial of service vulnerability. A local malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to denial of service/data unavailability.

  • CVE-2026-2817MedFeb 19, 2026
    risk 0.29cvss 4.4epss 0.00

    Use of insecure directory in Spring Data Geode snapshot import extracts archives into predictable, permissive directories under the system temp location. On shared hosts, a local user with basic privileges can access another user’s extracted snapshot contents, leading to…

  • CVE-2023-2976MedJun 14, 2023
    risk 0.29cvss 5.5epss 0.00

    Use of Java's default temporary directory for file creation in `FileBackedOutputStream` in Google Guava versions 1.0 to 31.1 on Unix systems and Android Ice Cream Sandwich allows other users and apps on the machine with access to the default Java temporary directory to be able…

  • CVE-2022-24823MedMay 6, 2022
    risk 0.29cvss 5.5epss 0.01

    Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework. The package `io.netty:netty-codec-http` prior to version 4.1.77.Final contains an insufficient fix for CVE-2021-21290. When Netty's multipart decoders are used local information disclosure can…

  • CVE-2020-17521MedDec 7, 2020
    risk 0.29cvss 5.5epss 0.01

    Apache Groovy provides extension methods to aid with creating temporary directories. Prior to this fix, Groovy's implementation of those extension methods was using a now superseded Java JDK method call that is potentially not secure on some operating systems in some contexts.…

  • CVE-2025-33111MedDec 8, 2025
    risk 0.28cvss 4.3epss 0.00

    IBM Controller 11.1.0 through 11.1.1 and IBM Cognos Controller 11.0.0 through 11.0.1 FP6 is vulnerable to creation of temporary files without atomic operations which may expose sensitive information to an authenticated user due to race condition attacks.

  • CVE-2021-43017MedNov 18, 2021
    risk 0.27cvss 4.2epss 0.01

    Adobe Creative Cloud version 5.5 (and earlier) are affected by an Application denial of service vulnerability in the Creative Cloud Desktop installer. An authenticated attacker with root privileges could leverage this vulnerability to achieve denial of service by planting a…

  • CVE-2021-21363MedMar 11, 2021
    risk 0.27cvss 5.3epss 0.00

    swagger-codegen is an open-source project which contains a template-driven engine to generate documentation, API clients and server stubs in different languages by parsing your OpenAPI / Swagger definition. In swagger-codegen before version 2.4.19, on Unix like systems, the…

  • CVE-2023-38533LowJun 11, 2024
    risk 0.21cvss 3.3epss 0.00

    A vulnerability has been identified in TIA Administrator (All versions < V3 SP2). The affected component creates temporary download files in a directory with insecure permissions. This could allow any authenticated attacker on Windows to disrupt the update process.

  • CVE-2021-21331LowMar 3, 2021
    risk 0.20cvss 3.0epss 0.01

    The Java client for the Datadog API before version 1.0.0-beta.9 has a local information disclosure of sensitive information downloaded via the API using the API Client. The Datadog API is executed on a unix-like system with multiple users. The API is used to download a file…

  • CVE-2026-14551HigJul 22, 2026
    risk 0.00cvss 8.8epss 0.00

    The servereye client (also known as sensorhub, technically ClientAgentContainerService) versions 20.15 and earlier are vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation. The high-privileged service SE3Recovery (EmergencyRecoveryService.exe), running as SYSTEM, periodically monitors the…

  • CVE-2026-46388MedJul 10, 2026
    risk 0.00cvss 4.4epss 0.00

    osquery is a SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics framework. Prior to 5.23.1, an unprivileged attacker can read the contents of an osquery file carve until the carve completes and the temporary files are deleted because in-progress carve…

  • CVE-2023-3972HigNov 1, 2023
    risk 0.00cvss 7.8epss 0.00

    A vulnerability was found in insights-client. This security issue occurs because of insecure file operations or unsafe handling of temporary files and directories that lead to local privilege escalation. Before the insights-client has been registered on the system by root, an…