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CVE-2016-5552

OpenJDK: incorrect URL parsing in URLStreamHandler (Networking, 8167223)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · January 17, 2017

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

It was discovered that the Networking component of OpenJDK failed to properly parse user info from the URL. A remote attacker could cause a Java application to incorrectly parse an attacker supplied URL and interpret it differently from other applications processing the same URL.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation