CVE-2009-3886

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Java Web Start implementation in Sun Java SE 6 before Update 17 does not properly handle the interaction between a signed JAR file and a JNLP (1) application or (2) applet, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors, related to a "regression," aka Bug Id 6870531.

Affected products

Sun Jre: through 1.6.0; 1.6.0-update_1, 1.6.0-update_10, 1.6.0-update_11, 1.6.0-update_12, 1.6.0-update_13, 1.6.0-update_14 (+9)

References

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532914
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6794
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532914
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6794

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