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CVE-2020-8908

Google LLC · published 2020-12-10

Source record Collected from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)

Description

Description by Google Inc. via the CVE Program.

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.

Status at the source

Affected products, as the source lists them

VendorProductVersions
Google LLCGuava1.0 – before 32.0: affected
Products named in NVD's CPE match criteria (13)
  • cpe:2.3:a:google:guava:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:quarkus:quarkus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:oracle:commerce_guided_search:11.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_network_slice_selection_function:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_pricing_design_center:12.0.0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:oracle:data_integrator:12.2.1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:oracle:nosql_database:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools:8.57:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:oracle:retail_customer_management_and_segmentation_foundation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:oracle:weblogic_server:14.1.1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_network_repository_function:1.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:oracle:primavera_unifier:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:netapp:active_iq_unified_manager:-:*:*:*:*:linux:*:*

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Scores, as their sources published them

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Weaknesses

CWE-378, CWE-732

Sources

References the source lists

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Source dates: published 2020-12-10, last changed 2026-06-17. DeSpy's copy of this version is dated 2026-09-28.

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