Red Hat Insights client creates world writable files under /var/tmp/insights-archive

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • tar files created under /var/tmp/insights-archive have rw-rw-rw permissions
  • World writable files are created by insights-client under /var/tmp/insights-archive-XXX
  • Found files with 0666 permission in the /var/tmp/insights-archive-<random string> directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Insights
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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