Insecure Temporary File in horovod/horovod
Reported on
Jan 8th 2022
Description
horovod
package is using the deprecated function tempfile.mktemp()
which is not secure. Because a different process may create a file with this name in the time between the call to mktemp()
and the subsequent attempt to create the file by the first process.
Impact
Availability will get affected because of this vulnerability.
Remediation
Use mkstemp()
instead of tempfile.mktemp()
Occurrences
SECURITY.md
2 years ago
This has been fixed. Please do not send any further messages regarding this.
A fix to address the above vulnerability has been merged into master branch.
Hi Enrico, Thank you for fixing the reported vulnerability. Can you please approve the same here. Thanks again.
Hi Enrico, is the fix got released? Can this report be made public?