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CVE-2021-22572

MEDIUM
Published 2022-03-29T15:05:19.000Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
5.5
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.000
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.0% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.013
Higher than 1.3% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE

Description

On unix-like systems, the system temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. The root cause is File.createTempFile creates files in the the system temporary directory with world readable permissions. Any sensitive information written to theses files is visible to all other local users on unix-like systems. We recommend upgrading past commit https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/pull/969

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

Google LLC

Data-Transfer-Project

Affected Versions:

unspecified

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed MODERATE

GHSA-hggf-qxmm-f4vw

Advisory Details

On unix-like systems, the system temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. The root cause is File.createTempFile creates files in the the system temporary directory with world readable permissions. Any sensitive information written to theses files is visible to all other local users on unix-like systems. We recommend upgrading past commit https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/pull/969

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

WEB https://github.com/JLLeitschuh/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-22c6-wcjm-qfjg
ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22572
WEB https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/pull/969

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: March 30, 2022, Modified: April 9, 2022

References

https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/pull/969
https://github.com/JLLeitschuh/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-22c6-wcjm-qfjg
Published: 2022-03-29T15:05:19.000Z
Last Modified: 2025-04-21T13:54:59.936Z
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