CVE-2015-5235
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
IcedTea-Web before 1.5.3 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 does not properly determine the origin of unsigned applets, which allows remote attackers to bypass the approval process or trick users into approving applet execution via a crafted web page.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.6.1-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.6.1-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.6.1-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.6.1-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.6.1-1 |
| suse | 13.1 | affected | |
| suse | 13.2 | affected | |
| fedora | 21 | affected | |
| fedora | 22 | affected | |
| rhel | 6.0 | affected | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167120.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167130.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00019.html
- http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2015-September/033546.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0778.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033780
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2817-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233697
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5235
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.