VDB
CVE-2020-17534
CVE-2020-17534
PUBLISHED
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
EPSS 0.07% · 21.2th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.07%
21.2th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:20.04:LTS | netbeans | 0, 10.0-3ubuntu3 |
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | netbeans | *, *, 0 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | netbeans | 0, 12.1-3 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | netbeans | 0, 8.0.2+dfsg1-5, 8.1+dfsg1-1 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | netbeans | 12.1-3, 0 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | netbeans | 0, 12.1-3 |
Exploit Intelligence
Timeline
- Jan 11, 2021 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-17534 third-party-advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra6119c0cdfccf051a846fa11b61364f5df9e7db93c310706a947f86a%40%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-17534 third-party-advisory