CVE-2023-2976 (GCVE-0-2023-2976)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-14 17:36 – Updated: 2026-02-25 16:57
VLAI
Title
Use of temporary directory for file creation in `FileBackedOutputStream` in Guava
Summary
Use of Java's default temporary directory for file creation in `FileBackedOutputStream` in Google Guava versions 1.0 to 31.1 on Unix systems and Android Ice Cream Sandwich allows other users and apps on the machine with access to the default Java temporary directory to be able to access the files created by the class. Even though the security vulnerability is fixed in version 32.0.0, we recommend using version 32.0.1 as version 32.0.0 breaks some functionality under Windows.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-04-18 04:00 UTC
CWE
  • Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions
  • CWE-552 - Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
Assigner
Google CNA under the Google root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 36 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Guava Affected: 1.0 , < 32.0.0 (custom)
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.