CVE-2010-1423

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 55.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-04-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-78

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.

Affected products

Oracle Java SE: through 1.6.0; 1.6.0-update10
Oracle Java SE: through 1.6.0; 1.6.0-update_10

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2010-April/074036.html
http://osvdb.org/63648
http://secunia.com/advisories/39260
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/886582
http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023840
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0853
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/57615
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14090
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2010-April/074036.html
http://osvdb.org/63648
http://secunia.com/advisories/39260

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