CVE-2020-17534

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-17534
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-17534.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-17534
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2021-01-11T16:15:14Z
Modified
2026-10-24T10:30:29Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/netbeans-html4j

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/apache/netbeans-html4j
Events
Introduced
0019fb52ee94897c8a1e0abd26a3816cfb1c67c9
Last Affected
0019fb52ee94897c8a1e0abd26a3816cfb1c67c9
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:apache:html\\/java_api:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "1.7"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "1.7"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.7
release-1.*
release-1.7

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-17534.json"