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
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: apache
Published: 2021-01-11T15:33:28
Updated: 2024-08-04T14:00:49.085Z
Reserved: 2020-08-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-17534
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-01-11T16:15:14.867
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:08:19.193
Link: CVE-2020-17534
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