CVE-2015-5234

CVE Details

Release Date:	2015-09-02
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

IcedTea-Web before 1.5.3 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 does not properlysanitize 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.

See more information about CVE-2015-5234 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (icedtea-web)	ELSA-2016-0778	2016-05-12