CVE-2009-2672

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The proxy mechanism implementation in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 15, and JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 20, does not prevent access to browser cookies by untrusted (1) applets and (2) Java Web Start applications, which allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Sun Jdk: through 6; 5.0-update_1, 5.0-update_10, 5.0-update_11, 5.0-update_12, 5.0-update_13, 5.0-update_14 (+23)
Sun Jre: through 6; 5.0-update_1, 5.0-update_10, 5.0-update_11, 5.0-update_12, 5.0-update_13, 5.0-update_14 (+24)

References

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html#150_20
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/2009-08/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00002.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125787273209737&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/36176
http://secunia.com/advisories/36180
http://secunia.com/advisories/36199
http://secunia.com/advisories/36248
http://secunia.com/advisories/37300

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