CVE-2011-2514

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% 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-264

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 trick victims into granting access to local files by modifying the content of the Java Web Start Security Warning dialog box to represent a different filename than the file for which access will be granted.

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/b99f9a9769e0
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.1/rev/512de5d90388
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=718170
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.0/rev/b99f9a9769e0
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.1/rev/512de5d90388
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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