CVE-2020-17534 | BDVDB-2026-147179 Detail

Apache NetBeans HTML/Java API

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

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra6119c0cdfccf051a846fa11b61364f5df9e7db93c310706a947f86a%40%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12021-01-11Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-04Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.