CVE-2015-5234

Summary

CVECVE-2015-5234
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-10-09 14:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-30 16:27:00 UTC
DescriptionIcedTea-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 21 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 22 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 21 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 22 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0 All All All
Application Redhat Icedtea 1.6 All All All
Application Redhat Icedtea 1.6 All All All
Application Redhat Icedtea All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: icedtea-web-1.6.1-1.fc21 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
IcedTea-Web Validation Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Applets - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
1233667 – (CVE-2015-5234) CVE-2015-5234 icedtea-web: unexpected permanent authorization of unsigned applets CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking
USN-2817-1: IcedTea Web vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Oracle Linux Bulletin - April 2016 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
IcedTea-Web 1.6.1 and 1.5.3 released MLIST mail.openjdk.java.net Patch
[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: icedtea-web-1.6.1-1.fc22 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2015:1595-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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