CVE-2013-6493

icedtea-web: insecure temporary file use flaw in LiveConnect implementation

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 2.0

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Published · February 5, 2014

Updated · January 8, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.4
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-377 · Insecure Temporary File