CVE-2019-10185 Path traversal in icedtea-web

What is CVE-2019-10185?

CVE-2019-10185 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 31 Jul 2019. 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

It was found that icedtea-web up to and including 1.7.2 and 1.8.2 was vulnerable to a zip-slip attack during auto-extraction of a JAR file. An attacker could use this flaw to write files to arbitrary locations. This could also be used to replace the main running application and, possibly, break out of the sandbox.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10185?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Icedtea-Web Project Icedtea-Web, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2019-10185?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2019-10185 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10185 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-2019-10185, GHSA-3q3x-68j9-f9vv, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-10185.