CVE-2015-5234 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2015-5234?

CVE-2015-5234 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 9 Oct 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5234?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5234?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2015-5234 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5234 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5234, GHSA-vjh2-cm2h-354g, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5234.