CVE-2020-17534

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…

published January 11, 2021

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
34.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00409 · 34.1th percentile
Published
2021-01-11T15:33Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 JAN 15:33Z
    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…
    cvelistv5