rootvector2 opened a new pull request, #775:
URL: https://github.com/apache/commons-vfs/pull/775

   `DefaultFileReplicator` pins its replica directory to 
`<java.io.tmpdir>/vfs_cache`, a fixed name under a directory every local user 
can write to, and leaves creation to `mkdirs` under the default umask. 
Everything the library replicates lands there world-readable, including the 
whole remote archive that `ZipFileSystem` and `TarFileSystem` copy through 
`replicateFile` before opening it. Because the name is known up front, another 
local user can also pre-create `vfs_cache` as a symlink and collect the 
replicas, or swap a replicated jar before `VFSClassLoader` reads it; found 
while auditing where the library writes files on the caller's behalf.
   
   Allocate the directory with `Files.createTempDirectory` on first use 
instead. It picks an unguessable name and creates it `rwx------` on POSIX file 
systems in a single step, so there is no window between creation and a chmod. 
Keeping this in the replicator puts the guarantee where the directory's 
lifetime is already managed, and an application that wants a specific location 
still passes one to the `DefaultFileReplicator(File)` constructor.
   
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