cve/2023/CVE-2023-6597.md

### [CVE-2023-6597](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-6597)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/NaInSec/CVE-LIST
- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds