CVE-2009-3864

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2009-11-04
CWE:
CWE-223
Bugzilla:
533205: CVE-2009-3864 java-1.5.0-sun, java-1.6.0-sun: Updates availability notification system failure (6869694)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2009-3864 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 7.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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