CVE-2009-2672: Sun JDK

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The proxy mechanism implementation 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 browser cookies by untrusted (1) applets and (2) Java Web Start applications, which allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via unspecified vectors.

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.