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CVE-2010-1423

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2010-04-15 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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 Platforms

Oracle JdkOracle Jre

Weakness Type

CWE-78

References