CVE-2020-17534
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
- CVSS Version 3.1
- CVSS Version 2.0
nvd
CVE ID: CVE-2020-17534
Base Score: 7.0
Base Severity: HIGH
Vector String:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Impact Score: 5.9
Exploitability Score: 1.0
nvd
CVE ID: CVE-2020-17534
Base Score: 4.4
Base Severity: MEDIUM
Vector String:AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Refrence: NVD