Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17, and OpenJDK, does not prevent the existence of children of a resurrected…

Description

Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17, and OpenJDK, does not prevent the existence of children of a resurrected ClassLoader, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to an "information leak vulnerability," aka Bug Id 6636650.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11484 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530173 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• GLSA-200911-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6906 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• MDVSA-2010:084 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• 37386 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 06:45 UTC.