VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-5234

medium
Published 2015-10-09 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

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.

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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OS impact
fedora Fedora Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
22 Affected —
21 Affected —
redhat Red Hat Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
6.0 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected —
13.1 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.6.1-1
sid Fixed 1.6.1-1
forky Fixed 1.6.1-1
bullseye Fixed 1.6.1-1
bookworm Fixed 1.6.1-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhaticedtea{"endIncluding":"1.5.2"}
redhat redhaticedtea1.6

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.