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CVE-2009-3864

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 22.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Java Update functionality in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Sun Java SE in JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 22 and JDK and JRE 6 before Update 17, when a non-English version of Windows is used, does not retrieve available new JRE versions, which allows remote attackers to leverage vulnerabilities in older releases of this software, aka Bug Id 6869694.

Affected products

• Microsoft Corporation Windows: all versions
• Sun Jdk: 1.5.0-update1, 1.5.0-update10, 1.5.0-update11, 1.5.0-update11_b03, 1.5.0-update12, 1.5.0-update13 (+34)
• Sun Jre: 1.5.0-update1, 1.5.0-update10, 1.5.0-update11, 1.5.0-update12, 1.5.0-update13, 1.5.0-update14 (+31)

References

• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00010.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37231
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37239
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-269868-1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36881
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3131
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6753
• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00010.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37231
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37239

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