Information disclosure in Red Hat Icedtea-Web
CVE-2013-6493
The LiveConnect implementation in plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc in IcedTea-Web before 1.4.2 allows local users to read the messages between a Java applet and a web browser by pre-creating a temporary socket file with a predictable name in /tmp.
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (38.8th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 39th percentile — 38.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: -0.000
Affected products
- Red Hat Icedtea-Web — versions 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-February/026192.html (mailing-list)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2131-1 (vendor-advisory)
- seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/282 (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/57036 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/rev/228e3652214a (Exploit, Patch)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00089.html (vendor-advisory)