CVE-2006-6745

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 7 and earlier, and Java System Development Kit (SDK) and JRE 1.4.2_12 and earlier 1.4.x versions, allow attackers to develop Java applets or applications that are able to gain privileges, related to serialization in JRE.

Affected products

Sun J2Se: 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_02, 1.4.2_03 (+17)
Sun Jre: 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.2_1, 1.4.2_2, 1.4.2_3, 1.4.2_4 (+17)

References

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/240
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00876579
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0003.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23445
http://secunia.com/advisories/23650
http://secunia.com/advisories/23835
http://secunia.com/advisories/24099
http://secunia.com/advisories/24189
http://secunia.com/advisories/24468
http://secunia.com/advisories/25283

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