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Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package guava.src  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-GUAVASRC-15338094
  • published24 Feb 2026
  • disclosed8 Sept 2020
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Introduced: 8 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-8908  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-379  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream guava.src package and not the guava.src package as distributed by RHEL.

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.

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