CVE-2011-2514
The Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP) implementation in IcedTea6 1.9.x before 1.9.9 and before 1.8.9, and IcedTea-Web 1.1.x before 1.1.1 and before 1.0.4, allows remote attackers to trick victims into granting access to local files by modifying the content of the Java Web Start Security Warning dialog box to represent a different filename than the file for which access will be granted.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 2.4% (84th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-2499)
- Published
- May 14, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-2499 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- redhat / icedtea-web
- redhat / icedtea-web
- redhat / icedtea-web
- redhat / icedtea-web
- redhat / icedtea-web
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
- redhat / icedtea6
References
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.0/rev/b99f9a9769e0
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.1/rev/512de5d90388
- http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-July/015170.html
- http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-July/015171.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1100.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025854
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1178-1(Patch)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718170
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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