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HIGH

OpenJDK Proxy mechanism information leaks (6801071)

Published Aug 5, 2009

Description

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

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (35)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Aug 5, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Aug 5, 2009
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Aug 5, 2009