CVE-2013-6493

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    CVE-2013-6493

    Published: 3 Mar 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/57036, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2131-1, http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/rev/228e3652214a, http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/rev/228e3652214a, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010958, 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

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High