CVE-2006-2426: sun jdk
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2006-2426 is a medium (CVSS 6.4) vulnerability in sun jdk. EPSS estimates a 12.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.
Not severe (CVSS 6.4, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 5Timeline
- 17-05-2006PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
12.98%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
96%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Increase +0.29 pp
From 12.69% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
2 foundExploit Reference (illegalaccess.org)
Maturity: unknown
Sun Java Applet - Font.createFont Remote Denial of Service
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
1 vendor · 3 products
References
25 links- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-109.htmX Refsource CONFIRM
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10609VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
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- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-108.htmX Refsource CONFIRM