Information disclosure in icedtea-web - CVE-2013-6493
Published: March 3, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41971
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6493
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: redhat
Affected software:
icedtea-web
icedtea-web
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-6493
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/rev/228e3652214a
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00089.html
- http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-February/026192.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/282
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57036
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2131-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010958