CVE-2022-21126

Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions

High · published November 29, 2022

CVSS v3.1
7.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
54.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00747 · 54.4th percentile
Published
2022-11-29T16:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 NOV 16:50Z
    Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions
    cvelistv5