CVE-2010-1423: Oracle JDK

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 55.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Argument injection vulnerability in the URI handler in (a) Java NPAPI plugin and (b) Java Deployment Toolkit in Java 6 Update 10, 19, and other versions, when running on Windows and possibly on Linux, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) -J or (2) -XXaltjvm argument to javaws.exe, which is processed by the launch method. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Oracle JDK: up to and including 1.6.0; version 1.6.0 only
• Oracle JRE: up to and including 1.6.0; version 1.6.0 only

Published 2010-04-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.