CVE-2019-10185

Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-07-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

It was found that icedtea-web up to and including 1.7.2 and 1.8.2 was vulnerable to a zip-slip attack during auto-extraction of a JAR file. An attacker could use this flaw to write files to arbitrary locations. This could also be used to replace the main running application and, possibly, break out of the sandbox.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Icedtea-web: through 1.7.2; 1.8.2
openSUSE Leap: 15.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00045.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154748/IcedTeaWeb-Validation-Bypass-Directory-Traversal-Code-Execution.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10185
https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web/issues/327
https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web/pull/344
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00008.html
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/5
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-51
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00045.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154748/IcedTeaWeb-Validation-Bypass-Directory-Traversal-Code-Execution.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10185
https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web/issues/327

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