Information Disclosure Affecting com.google.guava:guava package, versions [, 30.0-android) (30.0-android, 30.0-jre)

com.google.guava:guava is a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset,immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache and more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Disclosure. The file permissions on the file created by com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir allow an attacker running a malicious program co-resident on the same machine to steal secrets stored in this directory. This is because, by default, on unix-like operating systems the /tmp directory is shared between all users, so if the correct file permissions aren't set by the directory/file creator, the file becomes readable by all other users on that system.

File guavaTempDir = com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir();
System.out.println("Guava Temp Dir: " + guavaTempDir.getName());
runLS(guavaTempDir.getParentFile(), guavaTempDir); // Prints the file permissions -> drwxr-xr-x
File child = new File(guavaTempDir, "guava-child.txt");
child.createNewFile();
runLS(guavaTempDir, child); // Prints the file permissions -> -rw-r--r--

For Android developers, choosing a temporary directory API provided by Android is recommended, 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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