CVE-2020-17534

HighCVSS 7.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.0/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	Apache NetBeans HTML/Java API	v1.7

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra6119c0cdfccf051a846fa11b61364f5df9e7db93c310706a947f86a%40%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3EMailing List, Vendor Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra6119c0cdfccf051a846fa11b61364f5df9e7db93c310706a947f86a%40%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3EMailing List, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jan 11, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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