Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity Affecting icedtea-web package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.83% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-ICEDTEAWEB-11745701
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed7 Jul 2022

Introduced: 7 Jul 2022

CVE-2015-5236  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-345  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:14 icedtea-web.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream icedtea-web package and not the icedtea-web package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

It was discovered that the IcedTea-Web used codebase attribute of the <applet> tag on the HTML page that hosts Java applet in the Same Origin Policy (SOP) checks. As the specified codebase does not have to match the applet's actual origin, this allowed malicious site to bypass SOP via spoofed codebase value.

CVSS Base Scores

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