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CVE-2009-3883

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Windows Pluggable Look and Feel (PL&F) feature in the Swing implementation in Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17, and OpenJDK, have unknown impact and remote attack vectors, related to "information leaks in mutable variables," aka Bug Id 6657138.

Affected products

• 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-update12, 1.5.0-update13 (+31)
• Sun Jre: 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-update12, 1.5.0-update13 (+31)
• Sun Openjdk: all versions

References

• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:084
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530175
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10191
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6968
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml

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