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CVE-2009-2476

• 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: 2009-08-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Java Management Extensions (JMX) implementation in Sun Java SE 6 before Update 15, and OpenJDK, does not properly enforce OpenType checks, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging finalizer resurrection to obtain a reference to a privileged object.

Affected products

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

References

• 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/37386
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-125139-16-1
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:209
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2543
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513220

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