Impact
Information downloaded with the google/data-transfer-project may expose downloaded information to other local users.
Prerequisites
This vulnerability impacts Unix-like systems, and very old versions of Mac OSX and Windows as they all share the system temporary directory between all users.
Patches
Updates to version 0.3.57 or higher.
Additional Information
Workarounds
Setting the java.io.tmpdir system environment variable to a directory that is exclusively owned by the executing user will fix this vulnerability for all operating systems.
Impact
Information downloaded with the
google/data-transfer-projectmay expose downloaded information to other local users.Prerequisites
This vulnerability impacts Unix-like systems, and very old versions of Mac OSX and Windows as they all share the system temporary directory between all users.
Patches
Updates to version 0.3.57 or higher.
Additional Information
Workarounds
Setting the
java.io.tmpdirsystem environment variable to a directory that is exclusively owned by the executing user will fix this vulnerability for all operating systems.