CVE-2022-21126

Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Nov 29, 2022
Updated: Apr 24, 2025
Reserved: Feb 24, 2022

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.3 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	snyk

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
com.github.samtools:htsjdkn/a	before 3.0.1Affected

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMGITHUBSAMTOOLS-3149901
https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk/commit/4a4024a97ee3e87096df6ad9b22c8260bd527772
https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk/pull/1617

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