CVE-ID------CVE-2020-17534 Summary-------A race condition between the deletion of the temporary file and creation of the temporary directory
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[1] ----------- - Avoid using webkit presenter 1.7 - Update to HTML/Java API 1.7.1 Credit:-------The problem was identified by Jonathan Leitschuh -------- [1] https://github.com/apache/netbeans-html4j/commit/ fa70e507e5555e1adb4f6518479fc408a7abd0e6
