CVE-2005-3906

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-11-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in reflection APIs in Java SDK and JRE 1.4.2_08 and earlier and JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 3 and earlier allow remote attackers to escape the Java sandbox and access arbitrary files or execute arbitrary applications via unknown attack vectors, a different set of vulnerabilities than CVE-2005-3905. NOTE: this is associated with the "second and third issues" identified in SUNALERT:102003.

Affected products

Sun Jdk: 1.3, 1.3.0_02, 1.3.0_05, 1.3.1_01, 1.3.1_01a, 1.3.1_02 (+32)
Sun Jre: 1.3.0, 1.3.0-update1, 1.3.0-update2, 1.3.0-update3, 1.3.0-update4, 1.3.0-update5 (+20)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Nov/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/17748
http://secunia.com/advisories/17847
http://secunia.com/advisories/18092
http://secunia.com/advisories/18435
http://secunia.com/advisories/18503
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015280
http://sunsolve.sun.com/searchproxy/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102003-1
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21225628
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-10.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/974188
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15615

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