CVE-2009-2676: Sun Java SE

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in JNLPAppletlauncher in Sun Java SE, and SE for Business, in JDK and JRE 6 Update 14 and earlier and JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 19 and earlier; and Java SE for Business in SDK and JRE 1.4.2_21 and earlier; allows remote attackers to create or modify arbitrary files via vectors involving an untrusted Java applet that accesses an old version of JNLPAppletLauncher.

Affected products

• Sun Java SE: any version
• Sun JDK: up to and including 1.5.0; up to and including 1.6.0; version 1.5.0 only; version 1.6.0 only
• Sun JRE: up to and including 1.5.0; up to and including 1.6.0; version 1.5.0 only; version 1.6.0 only; up to and including 1.4.2_21; version 1.4.0 only; …
• Sun SDK: up to and including 1.4.2_21; version 1.4.0 only; version 1.4.0_01 only; version 1.4.0_02 only; version 1.4.0_03 only; version 1.4.0_04 only; …

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