CVE-2006-2426

Jdk vulnerability

CVSS

6.4

EPSS

12.7%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5.0_6 and earlier, JDK 1.5.0_6 and earlier, and SDK 1.5.0_6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by using the Font.createFont function to create temporary files of arbitrary size in the %temp% directory.

Affected vendor

Sun

Affected product

Jdk

CVSS vector

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

Published

2006-05-17

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 12.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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