CVE-2024-4030
tempfile.mkdtemp() may be readable and writeable by all users on Windows
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- PSF
Description
On Windows a directory returned by tempfile.mkdtemp() would not always have permissions set to restrict reading and writing to the temporary directory by other users, instead usually inheriting the correct permissions from the default location. Alternate configurations or users without a profile directory may not have the intended permissions. If you’re not using Windows or haven’t changed the temporary directory location then you aren’t affected by this vulnerability. On other platforms the returned directory is consistently readable and writable only by the current user. This issue was caused by Python not supporting Unix permissions on Windows. The fix adds support for Unix “700” for the mkdir function on Windows which is used by mkdtemp() to ensure the newly created directory has the proper permissions.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.30% · top 77% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Weakness
Affected products
Python Software Foundation · CPython
- affected < 3.8.20
- affected 3.9.0 – < 3.9.20
- affected 3.10.0 – < 3.10.15
- affected 3.11.0 – < 3.11.10
- affected 3.12.0 – < 3.12.4
- affected 3.13.0a1 – < 3.13.0b1
References (15)
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/PRGS5OR3N3PNPT4BMV2VAGN5GMUI5636/ (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/118486 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_transferred
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/81939dad77001556c527485d31a2d0f4a759033e (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8ed546679524140d8282175411fd141fe7df070d (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/35c799d79177b962ddace2fa068101465570a29a (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5130731c9e779b97d00a24f54cdce73ce9975dfd (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/66f8bb76a15e64a1bb7688b177ed29e26230fdee (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6d0850c4c8188035643586ab4d8ec2468abd699e (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/91e3669e01245185569d09e9e6e11641282971ee (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/94591dca510c796c7d40e9b4167ea56f2fdf28ca (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c8f868dc52f98011d0f9b459b6487920bfb0ac4d (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d86b49411753bf2c83291e3a14ae43fefded2f84 (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e1dfa978b1ad210d551385ad8073ec6154f53763 (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/eb29e2f5905da93333d1ce78bc98b151e763ff46 (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240705-0005/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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