CVE-2015-5236: Icedtea-Web Project Icedtea-Web

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was discovered that the IcedTea-Web used codebase attribute of the <applet> tag on the HTML page that hosts Java applet in the Same Origin Policy (SOP) checks. As the specified codebase does not have to match the applet's actual origin, this allowed malicious site to bypass SOP via spoofed codebase value.

Affected products

• Icedtea-Web Project Icedtea-Web: affected versions not specified

Published 2022-07-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.