vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6891-1 (CVE-2023-6597): Python vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
03/19/2024
Added
07/12/2024
Modified
02/18/2025

Description

An issue was found in the CPython `tempfile.TemporaryDirectory` class affecting versions 3.12.1, 3.11.7, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior.

The tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class would dereference symlinks during cleanup of permissions-related errors. This means users which can run privileged programs are potentially able to modify permissions of files referenced by symlinks in some circumstances.

Solution(s)

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