CVE-2020-17534

7HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Apache
Status
Apache Netbeans Html/java Api
Vendor
CVE Published:
11 January 2021

Summary

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 Version(s)

Apache NetBeans HTML/Java API v1.7

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra6119c0cdfccf051a84...
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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