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CVE-2013-6493 (GCVE-0-2013-6493)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-03-03 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 17:46
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2014-02-05 00:00
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