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CVE-2015-5235

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5235 describes a vulnerability in IcedTea-Web versions prior to 1.5.3 and 1.6.1, affecting products like Fedora, openSUSE, and Red Hat. This flaw allows remote attackers to bypass or trick users into approving unsigned applet execution due to improper origin determination. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this medium-complexity vulnerability primarily impacts integrity (partial) without affecting confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.02%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0302 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: icedtea-web-0:1.6.2-1.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: icedtea-web-0:1.6.1-4.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-5235Moderate

icedtea-web: applet origin spoofing

Sep 2, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167120.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167130.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00019.html
Third Party Advisory
mail.openjdk.java.net / pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2015-September/033546.html
Patch
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0778.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
securitytracker.com / id/1033780
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2817-1