Vulnerability in Google Guava

CVE-2020-8908

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(…

EPSS: 0.010 (57.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-8908?
CVE-2020-8908 is a low-severity vulnerability in Google Guava, classified under Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2020-12-10.
How severe is CVE-2020-8908?
Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-8908 known to be exploited?
24 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.