Riskcovery

CVE-2020-17534

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jan 11, 2021
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Aug 12, 2020

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Description

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

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Apache NetBeans HTML/Java APIn/a
  • v1.7Affected

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