CVE-2020-17534
There exists a race condition between the deletion of the temporary file and the creation of the temporary directory in `webkit`…
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- apache
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
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 65% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Weakness
- Information Disclosure
- CWE-362 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-362 and its CVEs
Affected products
Apache NetBeans HTML/Java API
- affected v1.7
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.netbeans.html:pomGHSA-ppc3-fpvh-7396 (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-ppc3-fpvh-7396 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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