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CVE-2009-2676

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in JNLPAppletlauncher in Sun Java SE, and SE for Business, in JDK and JRE 6 Update 14 and earlier and JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 19 and earlier; and Java SE for Business in SDK and JRE 1.4.2_21 and earlier; allows remote attackers to create or modify arbitrary files via vectors involving an untrusted Java applet that accesses an old version of JNLPAppletLauncher.

Affected products

• Sun Java Se: all versions
• Sun Jdk: through 1.5.0; through 1.6.0; 1.5.0, 1.5.0-update1, 1.5.0-update10, 1.5.0-update11, 1.5.0-update11_b03, 1.5.0-update12 (+25)
• Sun Jre: through 1.5.0; through 1.6.0; through 1.4.2_21; 1.5.0, 1.5.0-update1, 1.5.0-update10, 1.5.0-update11, 1.5.0-update12, 1.5.0-update13 (+58)
• Sun Sdk: through 1.4.2_21; 1.4.0, 1.4.0_01, 1.4.0_02, 1.4.0_03, 1.4.0_04, 1.4.1 (+28)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00003.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00002.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125787273209737&w=2
• http://osvdb.org/56789
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36176
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36199
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36248
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37300
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37460
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-125136-16-1

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