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CVE-2009-3883

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-3883 describes multiple unspecified vulnerabilities within the Windows Pluggable Look and Feel (PL&F) feature of the Swing implementation in Sun Java SE (versions 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17) and OpenJDK. These vulnerabilities, identified as "information leaks in mutable variables," have an unknown impact and remote attack vectors. 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. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:openjdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:*:update21:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.5.0:update1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.5.0:update10:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0203 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.17-1jpp.1.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: java-1.5.0-sun-0:1.5.0.22-1jpp.1.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-1.7.b09.el5
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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
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.17-1jpp.2.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.5.0-sun-0:1.5.0.22-1jpp.1.el5
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-3883Low

OpenJDK information leaks in mutable variables (6657026,6657138)

Nov 3, 2009

References

java.sun.com / j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
Vendor Advisory
java.sun.com / javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/37386
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10191
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6968
mandriva.com / security/advisories