6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.007 Low
EPSS
Percentile
80.3%
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.
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lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167130.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00019.html
mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2015-September/033546.html
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