CVE-2009-2670: Sun JDK

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The audio system in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 15, and JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 20, does not prevent access to java.lang.System properties by (1) untrusted applets and (2) Java Web Start applications, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading these properties.

Affected products

• Sun JDK: up to and including 6; version 5.0 only; version 6 only
• Sun JRE: up to and including 6; version 5.0 only; version 6 only

Published 2009-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.