CVE-2021-22572

FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-22572 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the Google Data Transfer Project on Unix-like systems. It stems from File.createTempFile creating world-readable temporary files, allowing local users to access sensitive information. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local user privileges, with a high impact on confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 0.3.57CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:google:data_transfer_project::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

1.8

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.13%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

3.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-28

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0013 is in the 19th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference

View patch

References

github.com / google/data-transfer-project/pull/969

PatchThird Party Advisory

github.com / JLLeitschuh/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-22c6-wcjm-qfjg

Third Party Advisory