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CVE-2009-1896

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-08-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Java Web Start framework in IcedTea in OpenJDK before 1.6.0.0-20.b16.fc10 on Fedora 10, and before 1.6.0.0-27.b16.fc11 on Fedora 11, trusts an entire application when at least one of the listed jar files is trusted, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code without the untrusted-code restrictions via a crafted application, related to NetX.

Affected products

• Sun Openjdk: through 1.6.0.0

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/36162
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:209
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512101
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00310.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00325.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36162
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:209
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512101
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00310.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00325.html

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