CVE-2020-17534: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

February 9, 2022

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 A similar vulnerability has recently been disclosed in other Java projects and the fix in HTML/Java API follows theirs.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17534

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