CVE-2009-3881 (GCVE-0-2009-3881)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-11-09 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17, and OpenJDK, does not prevent the existence of children of a resurrected ClassLoader, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to an "information leak vulnerability," aka Bug Id 6636650.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2009-11-03 00:00
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model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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