CVE-2020-17534

Summary

There exists a race condition between the deletion of the temporary file and the creation of the temporary directory in webkit subproject of HTML/Java API version 1.7. A similar vulnerability has recently been disclosed in other Java projects and the fix in HTML/Java API version 1.7.1 follows theirs: To avoid local privilege escalation version 1.7.1 creates the temporary directory atomically without dealing with the temporary file: https://github.com/apache/netbeans-html4j/commit/fa70e507e5555e1adb4f6518479fc408a7abd0e6

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
n/aApache NetBeans HTML/Java APIv1.7affected

Weaknesses

  • Information Disclosure

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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