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CVE-2024-55566

Date: December 8, 2024

ColPack 1.0.10 through 9a7293a has a predictable temporary file (located under /tmp with a name derived from an unseeded RNG). The impact can be overwriting files or making ColPack graphing unavailable to other users.

Language: C++

Severity Score

Related Resources (5)

https://github.com/CSCsw/ColPack/blob/9a7293a8dfd66a60434496b8df5ebb4274d70339/src/Utilities/extra.cpp#L184-L190
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-55566
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225617
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/335.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2024-55566

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-400

Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

CWE-335

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

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