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CVE-2020-17534

n/a / Apache NetBeans HTML/Java API PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
n/a / Apache NetBeans HTML/Java APIaffected v1.7

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

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CVE

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