Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2009-2673

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2673 describes a vulnerability in the proxy mechanism of Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 prior to Update 15, and JDK and JRE 5.0 prior to Update 20. This flaw allows remote attackers to bypass access restrictions and connect to arbitrary websites due to a missing 'final' keyword in a declaration. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, allowing for potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:*:update_13:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:5.0:update_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:5.0:update_10:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:5.0:update_11:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:5.0:update_12:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0484 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: java-1.5.0-sun-0:1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.15-1jpp.1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.10-1jpp.4.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-1.2.b09.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.1Fixed in: java-1.5.0-sun-0:1.5.0.22-1jpp.1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.3Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.7-1jpp.3.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.5.0-sun-0:1.5.0.20-1jpp.1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.15-1jpp.1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.10-1jpp.4.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.6-1jpp.3.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-2673Important

OpenJDK proxy mechanism allows non-authorized socket connections (6801497)

Aug 5, 2009

References

java.sun.com / j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
java.sun.com / javase/6/webnotes/6u15.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00000.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00002.html
marc.info
osvdb.org / 56785
secunia.com / advisories/36162
secunia.com / advisories/36176
secunia.com / advisories/36180
secunia.com / advisories/36199
secunia.com / advisories/36248
secunia.com / advisories/37300
secunia.com / advisories/37386
secunia.com / advisories/37460
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/52338
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10263
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8558
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1199.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1200.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1201.html
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
PatchVendor Advisory
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
Patch
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00310.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00325.html
mandriva.com / security/advisories
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2009-096303.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/35943
securitytracker.com / id
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA09-294A.html
US Government Resource
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2543
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/3316