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CVE-2024-55566

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-335

Description

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.

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225617
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/335.html
• https://github.com/CSCsw/ColPack/blob/9a7293a8dfd66a60434496b8df5ebb4274d70339/src/Utilities/extra.cpp#L184-L190

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