CWE-379
Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions
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.
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CVEs mapped to this weakness (68)
page 3 of 4| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
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| CVE-2023-40438 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Jan 10, 2024 | 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-2021-28623 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Jun 28, 2021 | 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-2021-28597 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Jun 28, 2021 | 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-2026-42191 | Med | 0.35 | 6.5 | 0.00 | May 12, 2026 | 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-2026-50544 | Med | 0.34 | 6.3 | 0.00 | Aug 13, 2026 | 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-2021-36002 | Med | 0.33 | 5.0 | 0.01 | Sep 1, 2021 | 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-2021-21290 | Med | 0.33 | 6.2 | 0.02 | Feb 8, 2021 | 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-2022-23163 | Med | 0.31 | 4.7 | 0.00 | Apr 12, 2022 | 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-2026-2817 | Med | 0.29 | 4.4 | 0.00 | Feb 19, 2026 | 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-2023-2976 | Med | 0.29 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Jun 14, 2023 | 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-2022-24823 | Med | 0.29 | 5.5 | 0.01 | May 6, 2022 | 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-2020-17521 | Med | 0.29 | 5.5 | 0.01 | Dec 7, 2020 | 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-2025-33111 | Med | 0.28 | 4.3 | 0.00 | Dec 8, 2025 | 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-2021-43017 | Med | 0.27 | 4.2 | 0.01 | Nov 18, 2021 | 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-2021-21363 | Med | 0.27 | 5.3 | 0.00 | Mar 11, 2021 | 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-2023-38533 | Low | 0.21 | 3.3 | 0.00 | Jun 11, 2024 | 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-2021-21331 | Low | 0.20 | 3.0 | 0.01 | Mar 3, 2021 | 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-2026-14551 | Hig | 0.00 | 8.8 | 0.00 | Jul 22, 2026 | 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-2026-46388 | Med | 0.00 | 4.4 | 0.00 | Jul 10, 2026 | 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-2023-3972 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.8 | 0.00 | Nov 1, 2023 | 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… |
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…