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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2023-2976 json

Use of temporary directory for file creation in `FileBackedOutputStream` in Guava

published 2023-06-14 3 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-7g45-4rm6-3mm3 , EUVD-2023-1730

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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 default Java temporary directory to be able to access the files created by the class.

Even though the security vulnerability is fixed in version 32.0.0, we recommend using version 32.0.1 as version 32.0.0 breaks some functionality under Windows.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.google.guava:guava 32.0.0-android
  • Google Guava 32.0.0
  • guava-libraries Debian 14, Debian 13 32.0.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-2976

  • jenkins ocp tools 4.14 2.426.3.1706516352-3.el8
  • jenkins-2-plugins ocp tools 4.14 4.14.1706516441-1.el8
  • eap7-avro jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 1.11.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap
  • eap7-guava jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 32.1.1-2.jre_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
  • eap7-jandex jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 2.4.4-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
  • eap7-yasson jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 1.0.11-4.redhat_00002.1.el7eap
  • eap7-jgroups jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 4.2.23-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
  • eap7-wildfly jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 7.4.14-5.GA_redhat_00002.1.el7eap

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:0777RHSA-2023:7637RHSA-2023:7638RHSA-2023:7639RHSA-2024:0778RHSA-2024:0800

  • guava Manager Server Module 4.3 32.0.1-150400.3.3.1
  • guava SLE Real Time 15 SP3, SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP5, SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP4 +2 more 32.0.1-150200.3.7.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1138-1SUSE-SU-2023:3090-1

  • guava openSUSE Tumbleweed 32.0.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13001-1

  • guava CBL-Mariner 2.0 25.0-8

azure linux advisories AZL-27173

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-2976 updated cvss 4.4

guava: insecure temporary directory creation

  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Runtimes org.jboss.windup-windup-parent
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.”
  • Red Hat A-MQ Online guava
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.”
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 3 guava Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2 guava
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.”
  • Red Hat build of Debezium 1 guava Red Hat build of OptaPlanner 8 guava Red Hat Decision Manager 7 guava Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 guava, guava-javadoc Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 guava, guava-javadoc, guava-testlib Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 guava, guava-javadoc, guava-testlib
    +8 more products
    Red Hat Fuse 7 guava Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 guava Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 2 guava Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 guava Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 guava Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 guava Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 guava Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 guava
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 jenkins, jenkins-2-plugins
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) guava Red Hat Process Automation 7 guava
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.”
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11.2
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2023:5491
  • Red Hat Middleware Containers for OpenShift rh-sso-7/sso76-openshift-rhel8 7.6-41
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2024:0801
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  • Red Hat MTA 6.2 for RHEL 8 mta/mta-ui-rhel9 6.2.2-2, mta/mta-hub-rhel9 6.2.2-2, mta/mta-rhel8-operator 6.2.2-3, mta/mta-operator-bundle 6.2.2-5, mta/mta-pathfinder-rhel9 6.2.2-2, mta/mta-windup-addon-rhel9 6.2.2-3
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2024:1027
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.12 jenkins 2.426.3.1706515686-3.el8, jenkins-2-plugins 4.12.1706515741-1.el8
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2024:0778
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.14 jenkins-2-plugins 4.14.1706516441-1.el8
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2024:0777
  • Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.5.0
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2023:5165
  • Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.6.0
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2023:7678
  • Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.7.0
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2024:3527
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.4.0 for Spring Boot
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2024:2707
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.13.9
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2023:7700
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-guava 32.1.1-2.jre_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-guava-libraries 32.1.1-2.jre_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2023:7637
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 8 eap7-guava 32.1.1-2.jre_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, eap7-guava-libraries 32.1.1-2.jre_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2023:7638
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 9 eap7-guava 32.1.1-2.jre_redhat_00001.1.el9eap, eap7-guava-libraries 32.1.1-2.jre_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2023:7639
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform guava 32.1.1.jre-redhat-00001
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2023:7641
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2024:0804
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 7 Server rh-sso7-keycloak 18.0.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso, rh-sso7-keycloak-server 18.0.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2024:0798
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 8 rh-sso7-keycloak 18.0.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso, rh-sso7-keycloak-server 18.0.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2024:0799
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 9 rh-sso7-keycloak 18.0.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el9sso, rh-sso7-keycloak-server 18.0.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el9sso
    fixed: vendor fix “Temp files should be created with sufficiently non-predictable names and in a secure-permissioned, dedicated temp folder.” RHSA-2024:0800
  • Red Hat A-MQ Clients 2 guava
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

13 more not affected in the full advisory

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA ADP 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.google.guava:guava
>=1.0, <32.0.0-android
32.0.0-android

Affected products

  • Google Guava

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-552 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
  • CWE-379 Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions

References

Sources

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