CVE-2015-5235

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-09-02
CWE:
CWE-345
Bugzilla:
1233697: CVE-2015-5235 icedtea-web: applet origin spoofing
It was discovered that IcedTea-Web did not properly determine an applet's origin when asking the user if the applet should be run. A malicious page could use this flaw to cause IcedTea-Web to execute the applet without user approval, or confuse the user into approving applet execution based on an incorrectly indicated applet origin.

Find out more about CVE-2015-5235 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

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

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (icedtea-web) RHBA-2015:2457 2015-11-19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (icedtea-web) RHSA-2016:0778 2016-05-10

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Andrea Palazzo (Truel IT) for reporting this issue.

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