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CVE-2022-21126
HIGH · CVSS 7.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-11-29T17:15:11.043 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:25:34.340

Summary

The package com.github.samtools:htsjdk before 3.0.1 are vulnerable to Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions due to the createTempDir() function in util/IOUtil.java not checking for the existence of the temporary directory before attempting to create it.

Affected products

samtools — htsjdk

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References

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