CVE-2023-6597 (GCVE-0-2023-6597)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-19 15:44 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:50
VLAI
Summary
An issue was found in the CPython `tempfile.TemporaryDirectory` class affecting versions 3.12.1, 3.11.7, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior. The tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class would dereference symlinks during cleanup of permissions-related errors. This means users which can run privileged programs are potentially able to modify permissions of files referenced by symlinks in some circumstances.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-05 19:08 UTC
CWE
Assigner
PSF CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 80/100 over 27 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 0 , < 3.8.19 (python)
Affected: 3.9.0 , < 3.9.19 (python)
Affected: 3.10.0 , < 3.10.14 (python)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.8 (python)
Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.1 (python)
Affected: 3.13.0a1 , < 3.13.0a3 (python)
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python_software_foundation cpython Affected: 0 , < 3.8.19 (custom)
Affected: 3.9.0 , < 3.9.19 (custom)
Affected: 3.10.0 , < 3.10.14 (custom)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.8 (custom)
Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.1 (custom)
Affected: 3.13.0a1 , < 3.13.0a3 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:python_software_foundation:cpython:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.