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Medium USN-4874-1 1 CVE

ant vulnerability

Published Mar 15, 2021 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that Apache Ant created temporary files with insecure
permissions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to read sensitive
information leaked into /tmp, or potentially inject malicious code into a
project that is built with Apache Ant.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS ant 1.9.3-2ubuntu0.1+esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS ant 1.9.6-1ubuntu1.1+esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS ant 1.10.5-3~18.04.1~esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS ant 1.10.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.3
    CVE-2020-1945

    Sensitive Data Exposure in Apache Ant

    Apache Ant 1.1 to 1.9.14 and 1.10.0 to 1.10.7 uses the default temporary directory identified by the Java system property java.io.tmpdir for several tasks and may thus leak sensitive information. The fixcrlf and replaceregexp tasks also copy files from the te…

    ant ant apache-ant org.apache.ant:ant Debian Ubuntu Alpine Maven

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-1945