CVE-2015-5234

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-10-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

IcedTea-Web before 1.5.3 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 does not properly sanitize applet URLs, which allows remote attackers to inject applets into the .appletTrustSettings configuration file and bypass user approval to execute the applet via a crafted web page, possibly related to line breaks.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 21, 22
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0
RedHat Icedtea: through 1.5.2; 1.6

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167120.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167130.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00019.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2015-September/033546.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0778.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033780
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2817-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233667
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167120.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167130.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00019.html

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