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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2009-3881

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

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.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published