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CVE-2020-29582

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-02-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-276

Description

In JetBrains Kotlin before 1.4.21, a vulnerable Java API was used for temporary file and folder creation. An attacker was able to read data from such files and list directories due to insecure permissions.

Affected products

• JetBrains Kotlin: before 2.1.0 — fixed in 2.1.0
• Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Network Slice Selection Function: 1.2.1
• Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Policy: 1.14.0
• Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Service Communication Proxy: 1.14.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: JetBrains Kotlin 2.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://blog.jetbrains.com
• https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/02/03/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q4-2020/
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2721aba31a8562639c4b937150897e24f78f747cdbda8641c0f659fe%40%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E
• https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
• https://blog.jetbrains.com
• https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/02/03/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q4-2020/
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2721aba31a8562639c4b937150897e24f78f747cdbda8641c0f659fe%40%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E
• https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html

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