The LiveConnect implementation in plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc in IcedTea-Web before 1.4.2 allows local users to read the messages…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.48% · top 59% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• [distro-pkg-dev] 20140305 IcedTea-Web 1.4.2 released! (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010958 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2131-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20140207 IcedTea-Web insecure temporary directory use - CVE-2013-6493 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 57036 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/rev/228e3652214a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2014:0310 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2013-6493](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2013-6493.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2013-6493)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 17:46 UTC.