{"id":"CVE-2020-17534","details":"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","aliases":["GHSA-ppc3-fpvh-7396"],"modified":"2026-07-08T20:28:54.186071Z","published":"2021-01-11T16:15:14.867Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra6119c0cdfccf051a846fa11b61364f5df9e7db93c310706a947f86a%40%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/apache/netbeans-html4j","events":[{"introduced":"0019fb52ee94897c8a1e0abd26a3816cfb1c67c9"},{"last_affected":"0019fb52ee94897c8a1e0abd26a3816cfb1c67c9"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:apache:html\\/java_api:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.7"},{"last_affected":"1.7"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["1.7","release-1.7"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-17534.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}