CVE-2015-5234

medium
Published 2015-10-09 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5234

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2015-September/033546.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.6.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.6.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.6.1-1
debian debiansidfixed1.6.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.6.1-1
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected
fedora fedora21affected
fedora fedora22affected
redhat rhel6.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhaticedtea{"endIncluding":"1.5.2"}
redhaticedtea1.6

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.