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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2009-2676 json

Unspecified vulnerability in JNLPAppletlauncher in Sun Java SE, and SE for Business, in JDK and JRE 6 Update 14 and earlier and JDK and JRE…

published 2009-08-05 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-2669

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in JNLPAppletlauncher in Sun Java SE, and SE for Business, in JDK and JRE 6 Update 14 and earlier and JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 19 and earlier; and Java SE for Business in SDK and JRE 1.4.2_21 and earlier; allows remote attackers to create or modify arbitrary files via vectors involving an untrusted Java applet that accesses an old version of JNLPAppletLauncher.

Patch / fix

  • oracle java_se 1.4.2_22, 1.5.0_20, 1.6.0_15, 4.2.22, 5.0.20, 6.0.15
  • oracle jdk 1.4.2_22, 1.5.0_20, 1.6.0_15, 4.2.22, 5.0.20, 6.0.15
  • oracle jre 1.4.2_22, 1.5.0_20, 1.6.0_15, 4.2.22, 5.0.20, 6.0.15
  • sun java 1.4.2_22, 1.5.0_20, 1.6.0_15, 4.2.22, 5.0.20, 6.0.15
  • sun java_se 1.4.2_22, 1.5.0_20, 1.6.0_15, 4.2.22, 5.0.20, 6.0.15
  • sun jdk 1.4.2_22, 1.5.0_20, 1.6.0_15, 4.2.22, 5.0.20, 6.0.15
  • sun jre 1.4.2_22, 1.5.0_20, 1.6.0_15, 4.2.22, 5.0.20, 6.0.15
  • oracle openjdk 1.4.2_22, 1.5.0_20, 1.6.0_15, 4.2.22, 5.0.20, 6.0.15
  • sun openjdk 1.4.2_22, 1.5.0_20, 1.6.0_15, 4.2.22, 5.0.20, 6.0.15
  • java-1.6.0-ibm network satellite 5.3 1:1.6.0.7-1jpp.3.el4
  • java-1.6.0-ibm network satellite 5.3 1:1.6.0.7-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.5.0-sun network satellite 5.1 1.5.0.22-1jpp.1.el4
  • java-1.6.0-ibm RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4
  • java-1.6.0-ibm RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el5
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-src RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-src RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el5
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-demo RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4

red hat advisories RHSA-2010:0043RHSA-2009:1662RHSA-2009:1582RHSA-2009:1200RHSA-2009:1199

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2009-2676 updated cvss 5.8

JRE applet launcher vulnerability

  • Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.15-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm-demo 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4, +10 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.15-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm-demo 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4, +10 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el5, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.15-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-demo 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el5, +11 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.15-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm-demo 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4, +10 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el5, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.15-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-demo 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el5, +11 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.15-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm-demo 1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4, +10 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1199
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.1 (RHEL v.4 AS) java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.22-1jpp.1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1662
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.3 (RHEL v.4) java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.7-1jpp.3.el4 Red Hat Satellite 5.3 (RHEL v.5) java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.7-1jpp.2.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0043

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Fix historical java records.