Description
CodeQL : Uncontrolled data used in path expression. Security check
The CodeQL for the build is failing due to security issue check . The build was triggered by push which did a refactor for the file AttachmentUtil
As we can see the line which is causing the CodeQL fail is 187 which is as below
bos.setOutputDir(new File((String)directory));
but the "directory" by an given by the caller which the class has not control over.
if we see a sample of test cases usage of the AttachmentDeserializer.ATTACHMENT_DIRECTORY
we can see System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") which is on linux
/tmp and by applying the rule, it will end up with tmp
I have reported a false positive issue to the CodeQL project
Also please take a look at the security issues from the LGTM.com site security error list
and the issue is reported there