CVE-2015-5235

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 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 determine the origin of unsigned applets, which allows remote attackers to bypass the approval process or trick users into approving applet execution via a crafted web page.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 21, 22
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6
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=1233697
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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