Security advisory
On unix-like systems, the system temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. The root cause is File.createTempFile creates files in the the system temporary directory with world readable permissions. Any sensitive information written to theses files is visible to all other local users on unix-like systems. We recommend upgrading past commit https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/pull/969
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-22572
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
On unix-like systems, the system temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. The root cause is File.createTempFile creates files in the the system temporary directory with world readable permissions. Any sensitive information written to theses files is visible to all other local users on unix-like systems. We recommend upgrading past commit https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/pull/969
osv:CVE-2021-22572
Complete source record
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