HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2010-4465

Jre vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
4.1%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 23 and earlier, 5.0 Update 27 and earlier, and 1.4.2_29 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Swing. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the February 2011 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a downstream vendor that this issue is related to the lack of framework support by AWT event dispatch, and/or "clipboard access in Applets."
Affected vendor
Sun
Affected product
Jre
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2011-02-17

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2010-4465

  • Confirm whether Sun Jre is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2010-4465.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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