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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8908

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8908 PUBLISHED CVSS 3.299999952316284 LOW

A temp directory creation vulnerability exists in all versions of Guava, allowing an attacker with access to the machine to potentially access data in a temporary directory created by the Guava API com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir(). By default, on unix-like systems, the created directory is world-readable (readable by an attacker with access to the system). The method in question has been marked @Deprecated in versions 30.0 and later and should not be used. For Android developers, we recommend choosing a temporary directory API provided by Android, such as context.getCacheDir(). For other Java developers, we recommend migrating to the Java 7 API java.nio.file.Files.createTempDirectory() which explicitly configures permissions of 700, or configuring the Java runtime's java.io.tmpdir system property to point to a location whose permissions are appropriately configured.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
3.299999952316284
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12guava-libraries32.0.1-1, 0, 31.1-1
Debian:11guava-libraries0, 29.0-6, 32.0.1-1
Debian:14guava-libraries0, 0, 0
Debianguava-libraries
Debian:13guava-libraries0, 0, 0

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Dec 10, 2020 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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