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
2021-01-11T16:15:14.867Z
Modified
2026-03-14T10:19:31.966571Z
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
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
0019fb52ee94897c8a1e0abd26a3816cfb1c67c9
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.7"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

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