CVE-2010-3860

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-12-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

IcedTea 1.7.x before 1.7.6, 1.8.x before 1.8.3, and 1.9.x before 1.9.2, as based on OpenJDK 6, declares multiple sensitive variables as public, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information including (1) user.name, (2) user.home, and (3) java.home system properties, and other sensitive information such as installation directories.

Affected products

RedHat Icedtea: through 1.9.1; 1.5-rc1, 1.5-rc2, 1.5-rc3, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 (+3)

References

http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2010/11/24/icedtea6-176-183-and-192-released/
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.9/rev/9aa0018d8c28
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051711.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42412
http://secunia.com/advisories/42417
http://secunia.com/advisories/43085
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0176.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45114
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1024-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3090

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