CVE-2009-3881

critical

Description

Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17, and OpenJDK, does not prevent the existence of children of a resurrected ClassLoader, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to an "information leak vulnerability," aka Bug Id 6636650.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6906

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11484

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530173

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:084

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/37386

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-11-09

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01092