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CVE-2015-5236

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-07-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-345

Description

It was discovered that the IcedTea-Web used codebase attribute of the <applet> tag on the HTML page that hosts Java applet in the Same Origin Policy (SOP) checks. As the specified codebase does not have to match the applet's actual origin, this allowed malicious site to bypass SOP via spoofed codebase value.

Affected products

• Icedtea-web: all versions

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256403
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256403

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