Race Condition Affecting samtools/htslib package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SAMTOOLSHTSLIB-2369383
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-14329  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for samtools/htslib.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. In HTSlib 1.8, a race condition in cram/cram_io.c might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

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