Insecure Temporary File Affecting com.fasterxml.util:java-merge-sort package, versions [,1.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMFASTERXMLUTIL-3227926
  • published 11 Jan 2023
  • disclosed 11 Jan 2023
  • credit Jonathan Leitschuh

How to fix?

Upgrade com.fasterxml.util:java-merge-sort to version 1.1.0 or higher.

Overview

com.fasterxml.util:java-merge-sort is a package for basic configurable disk-backed N-way merge sort

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Temporary File. in the StdTempFileProvider() function in StdTempFileProvider.java, which uses the permissive File.createTempFile() function, exposing temporary file contents.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

5.5 medium