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CVE-2009-2475

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% 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-200

Description

Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 20 and 6 before Update 15, and OpenJDK, might allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors involving static variables that are declared without the final keyword, related to (1) LayoutQueue, (2) Cursor.predefined, (3) AccessibleResourceBundle.getContents, (4) ImageReaderSpi.STANDARD_INPUT_TYPE, (5) ImageWriterSpi.STANDARD_OUTPUT_TYPE, (6) the imageio plugins, (7) DnsContext.debug, (8) RmfFileReader/StandardMidiFileWriter.types, (9) AbstractSaslImpl.logger, (10) Synth.Region.uiToRegionMap/lowerCaseNameMap, (11) the Introspector class and a cache of BeanInfo, and (12) JAX-WS, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2673.

Affected products

• Sun Java Se: through 5.0; through 6
• Sun Openjdk: all versions

References

• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u15.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36162
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36176
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36180
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36199
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-118667-22-1
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-125139-16-1

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