CVE-2020-17534
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
- Related
- Published
- 2021-01-11T16:15:14Z
- Modified
- 2024-09-02T22:40:17Z
- Severity
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- 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
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There exists a race condition between the deletion of the temporary file and the creation of the temporary directory in
webkitsubproject 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