Vulnerability in Apache Ant

CVE-2020-11979

As mitigation for CVE-2020-1945 Apache Ant 1.10.8 changed the permissions of temporary files it created so that only the current user was allowed to access them. Unfortunately the fixcrlf task deleted the temporary file and created a new o…

EPSS: 0.081 (94.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-11979?
CVE-2020-11979 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apache Ant, classified under Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-10-01.
How severe is CVE-2020-11979?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-11979 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.