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Advisory record · GHSA-cm59-pr5q-cw85

Temporary Directory Hijacking to Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in org.springframework.boot:spring-boot

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0060 · 48th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 11 Jul 2022, 20:59 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.springframework.boot:spring-bootMaven<2.2.11.RELEASE2.2.11.RELEASE
Identifiers
GHSA-cm59-pr5q-cw85 · CVE-2022-27772
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-377 · CWE-379 · CWE-668
Tags
Published
11 Jul 2022
Updated
8 Jul 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Spring Boot (org.springframework.boot:spring-boot) versions before 2.2.11.RELEASE are vulnerable to temporary directory hijacking in the createTempDir method, which creates the work directory for embedded web servers such as Tomcat and Jetty. A local attacker on an affected system who can write to that shared temporary directory could take over the application and escalate privileges. Upgrade to version 2.2.11.RELEASE or later. As a workaround, set the java.io.tmpdir property to a directory owned exclusively by the user running the application.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0060, the 48th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:19 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:19 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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