🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2022-21126

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software and timeline

Affected software: htsjdk. Published on 29 November 2022 and last revised on 20 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-11-29
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-05-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
htsjdk — —

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