Upstream information

CVE-2023-43123 at MITRE

Description

On unix-like systems, the temporary directory is shared between all user. As such, writing to this directory using APIs that do not explicitly set the file/directory permissions can lead to information disclosure. Of note, this does not impact modern MacOS Operating Systems.

The method File.createTempFile on unix-like systems creates a file with predefined name (so easily identifiable) and by default will create this file with the permissions -rw-r--r--. Thus, if sensitive information is written to this file, other local users can read this information.

File.createTempFile(String, String) will create a temporary file in the system temporary directory if the 'java.io.tmpdir' system property is not explicitly set.

This affects the class https://github.com/apache/storm/blob/master/storm-core/src/jvm/org/apache/storm/utils/TopologySpoutLag.java#L99 and was introduced by https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-3123

In practice, this has a very limited impact as this class is used only if ui.disable.spout.lag.monitoring

is set to false, but its value is true by default.
Moreover, the temporary file gets deleted soon after its creation.

The solution is to use Files.createTempFile https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/nio/file/Files.html#createTempFile(java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.nio.file.attribute.FileAttribute...) instead.

We recommend that all users upgrade to the latest version of Apache Storm.


SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having low severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 5.5 3.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required Low Low
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High Low
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact None None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1217474 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX]

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Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 storm Won't fix
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 storm Won't fix
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 storm Won't fix
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 storm Won't fix
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 storm Won't fix


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Nov 23 13:00:14 2023
CVE page last modified: Sat Aug 24 19:07:50 2024