CVE-2013-6493

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The LiveConnect implementation in plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc in IcedTea-Web before 1.4.2 allows local users to read the messages between a Java applet and a web browser by pre-creating a temporary socket file with a predictable name in /tmp.

Affected products

icedtea-web: through 1.3.2; 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6 (+13)

References

http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/rev/228e3652214a
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00089.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-February/026192.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/282
http://secunia.com/advisories/57036
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2131-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010958
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/rev/228e3652214a
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00089.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-February/026192.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/282
http://secunia.com/advisories/57036

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