CVE-2005-0418: Sun j2se

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Argument injection vulnerability in Java Web Start for J2SE 1.4.2 up to 1.4.2_06, on Mac OS X, allows untrusted applications to gain privileges via the value parameter of a property tag in a JNLP file. NOTE: it is highly likely that this item will be MERGED with CVE-2005-0836.

Affected products

• Sun j2se: version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.2_01 only; version 1.4.2_02 only; version 1.4.2_03 only; version 1.4.2_04 only; version 1.4.2_05 only; …

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.