CVE-2009-3880
The Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17, and OpenJDK, does not properly restrict the objects that may be sent to loggers, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors related to the implementation of Component, KeyboardFocusManager, and DefaultKeyboardFocusManager, aka Bug Id 6664512.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 1.8% (78th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3851)
- Published
- November 9, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-3851 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
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References
- http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:084
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530296
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10761
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7316
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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