Information Exposure Affecting org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib package, versions [,2.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGJETBRAINSKOTLIN-2393744
  • published4 Feb 2022
  • disclosed3 Feb 2022
  • creditJLLeitschuh

Introduced: 3 Feb 2022

CVE-2020-29582  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-378  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib to version 2.1.0 or higher.

Overview

org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib is a Kotlin Standard Library for JVM.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. A Kotlin application using createTempDir or createTempFile and placing sensitive information within either of these locations would be leaking this information in a read-only way to other users also on this system.

Note: As of version 1.4.21, the vulnerable functions have been marked as deprecated. Due to still being usable, this advisory is kept as "unfixed".

PoC by JLLeitschuh

package org.jlleitschuh.sandbox

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test
import java.io.BufferedReader
import java.io.File
import java.io.IOException
import java.io.InputStreamReader
import java.nio.file.Files

class KotlinTempDirectoryPermissionCheck {
    @Test
    fun `kotlin check default directory permissions`() {
        val dir = createTempDir()
        runLS(dir.parentFile, dir) // Prints drwxr-xr-x
    }

    @Test
    fun `Files check default directory permissions`() {
        val dir = Files.createTempDirectory("random-directory")
        runLS(dir.toFile().parentFile, dir.toFile()) // Prints drwx------
    }

    @Test
    fun `kotlin check default file permissions`() {
        val file = createTempFile()
        runLS(file.parentFile, file) // Prints -rw-r--r--
    }

    @Test
    fun `Files check default file permissions`() {
        val file = Files.createTempFile("random-file", ".txt")
        runLS(file.toFile().parentFile, file.toFile()) // Prints -rw-------
    }

    private fun runLS(file: File, lookingFor: File) {
        val processBuilder = ProcessBuilder()
        processBuilder.command("ls", "-l", file.absolutePath)
        try {
            val process = processBuilder.start()
            val output = StringBuilder()
            val reader = BufferedReader(
                InputStreamReader(process.inputStream)
            )
            reader.lines().forEach { line ->
                if (line.contains("total")) {
                    output.append(line).append('\n')
                }
                if (line.contains(lookingFor.name)) {
                    output.append(line).append('\n')
                }
            }
            val exitVal = process.waitFor()
            if (exitVal == 0) {
                println("Success!")
                println(output)
            } else {
                //abnormal...
            }
        } catch (e: IOException) {
            e.printStackTrace()
        } catch (e: InterruptedException) {
            e.printStackTrace()
        }
    }
}

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