GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-85p4-q357-72h9 Apache Storm Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Storm-core on Unix-Like systems due temporary files
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-43123
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.apache.storm:storm-core
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
- Reviewed
- 2023-11-24
Affected packages
• Maven org.apache.storm:storm-core: >= 2.0.0, < 2.6.0 → fixed in 2.6.0
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-43123 On unix-like systems, the temporary directory is shared between all user. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-43123 advisory
- https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/3582 web
- https://github.com/apache/storm/commit/b778125a17ce7497d80aea1e339f3a282aeeb65a web
- https://github.com/apache/storm package
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-3123 web
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/88oc1vqfjtr29cz5xts0v2wm5pmhbm0l web
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/23/1 web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/23/1 web