CVE-2002-2072

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

java.security.AccessController in Sun Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in JRE 1.2.2 and 1.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (JVM crash) via a Java program that calls the doPrivileged method with a null argument.

Affected products

Sun Jre: 1.2.2, 1.3.1

References

http://ohhara.sarang.net/security/jvmcrash.txt
http://securitytracker.com/id?1003418
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8042.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3992
http://ohhara.sarang.net/security/jvmcrash.txt
http://securitytracker.com/id?1003418
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8042.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3992

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