CVE-2015-5234

high

Description

IcedTea-Web before 1.5.3 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 does not properly sanitize applet URLs, which allows remote attackers to inject applets into the .appletTrustSettings configuration file and bypass user approval to execute the applet via a crafted web page, possibly related to line breaks.

References

Advisories
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0778.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00019.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167130.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167120.html

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-5230

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233667

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2817-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033780

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2015-September/033546.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-10-09

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02127