CVE-2009-3729: sun jre
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2009-3729 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in sun jre. EPSS estimates a 2.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84.9% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 09-11-2009PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the TrueType font parsing functionality in Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a certain test suite, aka Bug Id 6815780.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
2.54%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
85%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 2.54% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
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.
Sun1 product
- jre≤ 1.5.0 | ≤ 1.6.0 | 1.5.0:update_1 | 1.5.0:update_11 | 1.5.0:update_12 | 1.5.0:update_13 | 1.5.0:update_14 | 1.5.0:update_15 | 1.5.0:update_16 | 1.5.0:update_17 | 1.5.0:update_18 | 1.5.0:update_19 | 1.5.0:update_2 | 1.5.0:update_20 | 1.5.0:update_3 | 1.5.0:update_4 | 1.5.0:update_5 | 1.5.0:update_6 | 1.5.0:update_7 | 1.5.0:update_8 | 1.5.0:update_9 | 1.5.0:update10 | 1.6.0:update_1 | 1.6.0:update_10 | 1.6.0:update_11 | 1.6.0:update_12 | 1.6.0:update_13 | 1.6.0:update_14 | 1.6.0:update_15 | 1.6.0:update_2 | 1.6.0:update_3 | 1.6.0:update_4 | 1.6.0:update_5 | 1.6.0:update_6 | 1.6.0:update_7 | 1.6.0:update_8 | 1.6.0:update_9
1 vendor · 1 product
References
6 links- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7537VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532904X Refsource CONFIRM