CWE-379— Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions
The product creates a temporary file in a directory whose permissions allow unintended actors to determine the file's existence or otherwise access that file.— MITRE CWE catalog
77 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
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- CVE-2019-25677MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 6.22026-04-05
WinRAR 5.61 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by placing a malformed winrar.lng language file in the installation directory. Attackers can trigger the crash by opening an archiv…
- CVE-2021-21290MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 6.22021-02-08
Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. In Netty before version 4.1.59.Final there is a vulnerability on Unix-like …
- CVE-2025-32802MEDIUMCVSS 6.1EG 6.12025-05-28
Kea configuration and API directives can be used to overwrite arbitrary files, subject to permissions granted to Kea. Many common configurations run Kea as root, leave the API entry points unsecured by default, and/or place the control so…
- CVE-2023-32450MEDIUMCVSS 6.1EG 6.12023-07-27
Dell Power Manager, Versions 3.3 to 3.14 contains an Improper Access Control vulnerability. A low-privileged malicious user may potentially exploit this vulnerability to perform arbitrary code execution with limited access.
- CVE-2021-28633MEDIUMCVSS 6.1EG 6.12021-08-24
Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application (installer) version 2.4 (and earlier) is affected by an Insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to cause arbitrary file overwriting in the conte…
- CVE-2021-21068MEDIUMCVSS 6.1EG 6.12021-03-12
Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application version 5.3 (and earlier) is affected by a file handling vulnerability that could allow an attacker to cause arbitrary file overwriting. Exploitation of this issue requires physical access and user …
- CVE-2013-1815MEDIUMCVSS 6.1EG 6.12013-04-10
A flaw was found in PackStack. This vulnerability allows a local user to modify deployed systems by changing the answer file, which is created in insecure directories such as /tmp or the current working directory. This insecure file creati…
- CVE-2026-102740MEDIUMCVSS 5.8EG 5.82026-10-15
The AsyncHttpClient library allows Java applications to execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. From 2.0.0 until 2.16.1 and 3.0.12, PropertiesBasedResumableProcessor stores resumable download state at the predictab…
- CVE-2021-39828MEDIUMCVSS 5.8EG 5.82021-09-27
Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.11.187646 (and earlier) are affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Digital Editions installer. An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges. User interaction…
- CVE-2025-64896MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-12-09
Creative Cloud Desktop versions 6.4.0.361 and earlier are affected by a Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions vulnerability that could lead to application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulne…
- CVE-2025-21162MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-02-11
Photoshop Elements versions 2025.0 and earlier are affected by a Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation in the context of the current user. Exploitation of…
- CVE-2023-40438MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52024-01-10
An issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7. An app may be able to access edited photos saved to a temporary directory.
- CVE-2023-2976MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52023-06-14
Use of Java's default temporary directory for file creation in `FileBackedOutputStream` in Google Guava versions 1.0 to 31.1 on Unix systems and Android Ice Cream Sandwich allows other users and apps on the machine with access to the defau…
- CVE-2022-24823MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52022-05-06
Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework. The package `io.netty:netty-codec-http` prior to version 4.1.77.Final contains an insufficient fix for CVE-2021-21290. When Netty's multipart decoders are us…
- CVE-2021-28623MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52021-06-28
Adobe Premiere Elements version 5.2 (and earlier) is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to call functions against the installer to perform high privi…
- CVE-2021-28597MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52021-06-28
Adobe Photoshop Elements version 5.2 (and earlier) is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to call functions against the installer to perform high priv…
- CVE-2020-17521MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52020-12-07
Apache Groovy provides extension methods to aid with creating temporary directories. Prior to this fix, Groovy's implementation of those extension methods was using a now superseded Java JDK method call that is potentially not secure on so…
- CVE-2022-23163MEDIUMCVSS 4.7EG 5.52022-04-12
Dell PowerScale OneFS, 8.2,x, 9.1.0.x, 9.2.1.x, and 9.3.0.x contain a denial of service vulnerability. A local malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to denial of service/data unavailability.
- CVE-2026-119193MEDIUMCVSS 5.4EG 5.42026-10-29
PHPUnit is a testing framework for PHP. From 13.4.0 until 13.4.4, the TestCase::coverageFilesDirectory() logic in src/Runner/Phpt/TestCase.php creates temporary files for PHPT code coverage in a predictable phpunit-phpt directory under sys…
- CVE-2026-46388MEDIUMCVSS 4.4EG 4.42026-07-10
osquery is a SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics framework. Prior to 5.23.1, an unprivileged attacker can read the contents of an osquery file carve until the carve completes and the temporary files are …
- CVE-2026-2817MEDIUMCVSS 4.4EG 4.42026-02-19
Use of insecure directory in Spring Data Geode snapshot import extracts archives into predictable, permissive directories under the system temp location. On shared hosts, a local user with basic privileges can access another user’s extra…
- CVE-2025-33111MEDIUMCVSS 4.3EG 4.32025-12-08
IBM Controller 11.1.0 through 11.1.1 and IBM Cognos Controller 11.0.0 through 11.0.1 FP6 is vulnerable to creation of temporary files without atomic operations which may expose sensitive information to an authenticated user due to race con…
- CVE-2021-43017MEDIUMCVSS 4.2EG 4.22021-11-18
Adobe Creative Cloud version 5.5 (and earlier) are affected by an Application denial of service vulnerability in the Creative Cloud Desktop installer. An authenticated attacker with root privileges could leverage this vulnerability to achi…
- CVE-2021-21429MEDIUMCVSS 4.0EG 4.02021-04-27
OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries, server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec. Using `File.createTempFile` in JDK will result in creating and using insecure temporary files t…
- CVE-2023-38533LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32024-06-11
A vulnerability has been identified in TIA Administrator (All versions < V3 SP2). The affected component creates temporary download files in a directory with insecure permissions. This could allow any authenticated attacker on Windows to d…
- CVE-2021-21331LOWCVSS 3.0EG 3.02021-03-03
The Java client for the Datadog API before version 1.0.0-beta.9 has a local information disclosure of sensitive information downloaded via the API using the API Client. The Datadog API is executed on a unix-like system with multiple users.…
- CVE-2026-118990UnratedEG not assessed2026-10-30
CallBackery versions before 0.62.0 for Perl leave a world-readable dump of the configuration database in /tmp when taking a configuration backup. getConfigBlob() has the sqlite3 shell write the dump to /tmp/cbdump<pid> and never removes i…
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