CVE-2023-6597

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 39
Deferred
Published: 19 Mar 2024, 15:44
Last modified:03 Nov 2025, 21:50

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.08% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Mar 2024, 15:44
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Nov 2025, 21:50
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was found in the CPython `tempfile.TemporaryDirectory` class affecting versions 3.12.1, 3.11.7, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior. The tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class would dereference symlinks during cleanup of permissions-related errors. This means users which can run privileged programs are potentially able to modify permissions of files referenced by symlinks in some circumstances.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.08%• Percentile: 23%

Affected Systems

  • python software foundation•cpython

    < 3.8.19 | ≥ 3.9.0, < 3.9.19 | ≥ 3.10.0, < 3.10.14 | ≥ 3.11.0, < 3.11.8 | ≥ 3.12.0, < 3.12.1 | ≥ 3.13.0a1, < 3.13.0a3

References (14)