CVE-2009-1672: Sun JRE

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 9.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Deployment Toolkit ActiveX control in deploytk.dll 6.0.130.3 in Sun Java SE Runtime Environment (aka JRE) 6 Update 13 allows remote attackers to (1) execute arbitrary code via a .jnlp URL in the argument to the launch method, and might allow remote attackers to launch JRE installation processes via the (2) installLatestJRE or (3) installJRE method.

Affected products

• Sun JRE: version 6 only

Published 2009-05-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.