Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-23454

Medium

Published: 25 September 2024

Published
25 September 2024
Modified
13 November 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0010 27.8th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-23454 is a medium-severity Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions (CWE-378) vulnerability in Apache Hadoop. Its CVSS base score is 6.2 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 27.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Apache Hadoop’s RunJar.run() does not set permissions for temporary directory by default. If sensitive data will be present in this file, all the other local users may be able to view the content. This is because, on unix-like systems, the…

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system temporary directory is shared between all local users. As such, files written in this directory, without setting the correct posix permissions explicitly, may be viewable by all other local users.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

apache
hadoop
≤ 3.4.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References