CVE-2010-1423

critical

Published 2010-04-15 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in the URI handler in (a) Java NPAPI plugin and (b) Java Deployment Toolkit in Java 6 Update 10, 19, and other versions, when running on Windows and possibly on Linux, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) -J or (2) -XXaltjvm argument to javaws.exe, which is processed by the launch method. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-41700 local windows verified

Metasploit · 2010-04-09

Sun Java Web Start Plugin - Command Line Argument Injection (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/browser/java_ws_arginject_altjvm rank 600

Sun Java Web Start Plugin Command Line Argument Injection

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
oracle	jdk	`{"endIncluding":"1.6.0"}`
oracle	jdk	`1.6.0`
oracle	jre	`{"endIncluding":"1.6.0"}`
oracle	jre	`1.6.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-78

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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