CVE-2005-1973: Sun j2se

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Java Web Start in Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 and 5.0 Update 1 allows applications to assign permissions to themselves and gain privileges.

Affected products

• Sun j2se: version 5.0 only; version 5.0_update1 only

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