GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-ppc3-fpvh-7396 Improper synchronization in Apache Netbeans HTML/Java API

HIGH Published 2022-02-09 Modified 2022-05-03 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2020-17534
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.netbeans.html:pom
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-362
Reviewed
2021-04-06

Affected packages

• Maven org.netbeans.html:pom: < 1.7.1 → fixed in 1.7.1

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2020-17534 There exists a race condition between the deletion of the temporary file and the creation of the temporary directory in `webkit` subproject… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References