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CVE-2015-5234 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167120.html CVEThird Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167130.html CVEThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00019.html CVEThird Party Advisory
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2015-September/033546.html CVEPatch
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0778.html CVEThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-20Improper Input Validation[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-5234
NVD Published Date:
Oct 9, 2015
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2015-5234 Details - Not Deferred