CVE-2024-55566

State: Published
Severity: 6.6 Medium
Published: Dec 9, 2024
Updated: Apr 4, 2025
Reserved: Dec 9, 2024

Description

ColPack 1.0.10 through 9a7293a has a predictable temporary file (located under /tmp with a name derived from an unseeded RNG). The impact can be overwriting files or making ColPack graphing unavailable to other users.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.6 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-335 Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225617
https://github.com/CSCsw/ColPack/blob/9a7293a8dfd66a60434496b8df5ebb4274d70339/src/Utilities/extra.cpp#L184-L190
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/335.html

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