CVE-2006-2539: Sybase Easerver

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sybase EAServer 5.0 for HP-UX Itanium, 5.2 for IBM AIX, HP-UX PA-RISC, Linux x86, and Sun Solaris SPARC, and 5.3 for Sun Solaris SPARC does not properly protect passwords when they are being entered via the GUI, which allows local users to obtain the cleartext passwords via the getSelectedText function in javax.swing.JPasswordField component.

Affected products

• Sybase Easerver: version 5.0 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only

Published 2006-05-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.