CVE-2015-5234
EPSS 0.92%
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.
How to fix CVE-2015-5234
To remediate CVE-2015-5234, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/icedtea-web—upgrade to 1.6.1-1 or later
Is CVE-2015-5234 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.9%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.6.1-1