CVE-2009-2625

Jdk vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

30.4%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

XMLScanner.java in Apache Xerces2 Java, as used in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 15 and JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 20, and in other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and application hang) via malformed XML input, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Affected vendor

Oracle

Affected product

Jdk

CVSS vector

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

Published

2009-08-06

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 availability.

Its EPSS score of 30.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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