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Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions in the OpenAPI Generator Maven plugin

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 27, 2021 in OpenAPITools/openapi-generator • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

maven org.openapitools:openapi-generator-maven-plugin (Maven)

Affected versions

< 5.1.0

Patched versions

5.1.0

Description

Impact

Using File.createTempFile in JDK will result in creating and using insecure temporary files that can leave application and system data vulnerable to attacks. This vulnerability only impacts unix-like systems where the local system temporary directory is shared between all users. This vulnerability does not impact Windows or modern versions of MacOS.

OpenAPI Generator Maven plug-in creates insecure temporary files during the code generation process. It creates insecure temporary files to store the OpenAPI specification files provided by the users and these temporary files can be read by any users in the system.

The impact of this vulnerability is information disclosure of the contents of the specification file to other local users.

Patches

The issue has been patched with Files.createTempFile and released in the v5.1.0 stable version.

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References

@wing328 wing328 published to OpenAPITools/openapi-generator Apr 27, 2021
Reviewed Apr 27, 2021
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 27, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 29, 2021
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.044%
(13th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-21429

GHSA ID

GHSA-867q-77cc-98mv

Source code

No known source code

Credits

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