[DepShield] (CVSS 3.3) Vulnerability due to usage of com.google.guava:guava:27.1-jre

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[DepShield] (CVSS 3.3) Vulnerability due to usage of com.google.guava:guava:27.1-jre

sonatype-depshield opened this issue 4 years ago · 1 comments

sonatype-depshield commented 4 years ago

Vulnerabilities

DepShield reports that this application's usage of com.google.guava:guava:27.1-jre results in the following vulnerability(s):

(CVSS 3.3) [CVE-2020-8908] A temp directory creation vulnerability exist in Guava versions prior to 30.0 al...

Occurrences

com.google.guava:guava:27.1-jre is a transitive dependency introduced by the following direct dependency(s):

• com.google.cloud:google-cloud-storage:1.111.1
└─ com.google.guava:guava:27.1-jre

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Answer 1 · 2021-01-16T18:12:03.000Z

Applications that use this component are only vulnerable to the exploit defined in CVE-2020-8903 if they use the com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir() method. I've analyzed the usage of the component here and have confirmed that API is unused/unreachable.