CVE-2019-10185

icedtea-web: directory traversal in the nested jar auto-extraction leading to arbitrary file overwrite

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

8.2

CVSS 3.0

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Published · July 31, 2019

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

It was found that icedtea-web was vulnerable to a zip-slip attack during auto-extraction of a JAR file. An attacker could use this flaw to write files to arbitrary locations. This could also be used to replace the main running application and, possibly, break out of the sandbox.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No known mitigation.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 8.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')