Improper Access Control Affecting python package, versions [,3.8.20)[3.9.0a1,3.9.20)[3.10.0a1,3.10.15)[3.11.0a1,3.11.10)[3.12.0a1,3.12.4)[3.13.0a1,3.13.0b1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-6814534
  • published8 May 2024
  • disclosed7 May 2024
  • creditSeth Larson

Introduced: 7 May 2024

CVE-2024-4030  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-276  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade python to version 3.8.20, 3.9.20, 3.10.15, 3.11.10, 3.12.4, 3.13.0b1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control due to the improper setting of permissions on directories created by tempfile.mkdtemp(). An attacker can access and modify files in these directories by exploiting the default permission settings.

Note: Only applications running on Windows are vulnerable.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1