CVE-2011-2513

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP) implementation in IcedTea6 1.9.x before 1.9.9 and before 1.8.9, and IcedTea-Web 1.1.x before 1.1.1 and before 1.0.4, allows remote attackers to obtain the username and full path of the home and cache directories by accessing properties of the ClassLoader.

Affected products

icedtea-web: through 1.0.3; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1
IcedTea6: through 1.8.8; 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5 (+10)

References

http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.0/rev/b29fdd0f4d04
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.1/rev/c7ce6c0e6227
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-July/015170.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-July/015171.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1100.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025854
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1178-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718164
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.0/rev/b29fdd0f4d04
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.1/rev/c7ce6c0e6227
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-July/015170.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-July/015171.html

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