CVE-2005-0836

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Java Web Start for J2SE 1.4.2 up to 1.4.2_06 allows untrusted applications to gain privileges via the value parameter of a property tag in a JNLP file.

Affected products

Sun J2Se: 1.4.2, 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_02, 1.4.2_03, 1.4.2_04, 1.4.2_05 (+1)

References

http://jouko.iki.fi/adv/ws.html
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=111117284323657&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/14640
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57740-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200255-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1000200.1-1
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-28.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_32_java2.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12847
http://jouko.iki.fi/adv/ws.html
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=111117284323657&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/14640

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