CVE-2020-17534

High

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

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.0
Exploit probability—
ProductApache Html\/java Api
PublishedJan 11, 2021
First seenJan 11, 2021

How to fix

Update
  • org.netbeans.html:pom1.7.1 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
apache html\/java_api1.7—
org.netbeans.html:pomMavenv < 1.7.11.7.1

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