Information Disclosure Affecting com.google.guava:guava package, versions [, 30.0-android)(30.0-android, 30.0-jre)
Threat Intelligence
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- published23 Oct 2020
- disclosed2 Oct 2020
- creditJonathan Leitschuh
Introduced: 2 Oct 2020
CVE-2020-8908 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fix for com.google.guava:guava. However, in version 30.0 and above, the vulnerable functionality has been deprecated. In oder to mitigate this vulnerability, upgrade to version 30.0 or higher and ensure your dependencies don't use the createTempDir or createTempFile methods.
Overview
com.google.guava:guava is a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset,immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache and more.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Disclosure.
The file permissions on the file created by com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir allow an attacker running a malicious program co-resident on the same machine to steal secrets stored in this directory. This is because, by default, on unix-like operating systems the /tmp directory is shared between all users, so if the correct file permissions aren't set by the directory/file creator, the file becomes readable by all other users on that system.
PoC
File guavaTempDir = com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir();
System.out.println("Guava Temp Dir: " + guavaTempDir.getName());
runLS(guavaTempDir.getParentFile(), guavaTempDir); // Prints the file permissions -> drwxr-xr-x
File child = new File(guavaTempDir, "guava-child.txt");
child.createNewFile();
runLS(guavaTempDir, child); // Prints the file permissions -> -rw-r--r--
For Android developers, choosing a temporary directory API provided by Android is recommended, 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.