CVE-2020-17534

2021-01-1115:33:28

apache

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0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Apache NetBeans HTML/Java API",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "v1.7"
      }
    ]
  }
]