Medium

Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions in logilab-commons

  • Disclosed: 11.03.2014
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 11:20

The Execute class in shellutils in logilab-common before 0.61.0 uses tempfile.mktemp, which allows local users to have an unspecified impact by pre-creating the temporary file.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) logilab-common < 0.61.0 0.61.0

References

CVSS score 5.6/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-378
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
logilab-common
Disclosed
11.03.2014
Updated
11.10.2026 11:20

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2014-84 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-g5m2-22h2-rr3j - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: logilab-common

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
2
First → latest
03.2014 03.2014
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 1
  • Medium 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2017: 0
  2. 2018: 0
  3. 2019: 0
  4. 2020: 0
  5. 2021: 0
  6. 2022: 0
  7. 2023: 0
  8. 2024: 0
  9. 2025: 0
  10. 2026: 0

earlier: 2

  1. Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions in logilab-commons this entry
    Medium · 5.6 CVE-2014-1839 < 0.61.0 0.61.0
  2. High · 5.6 CVE-2014-1838 < 0.61.0 0.61.0

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