CVE-2009-3728

Summary

CVECVE-2009-3728
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-11-09 19:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionDirectory traversal vulnerability in the ICC_Profile.getInstance method in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17, and OpenJDK, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of local International Color Consortium (ICC) profile files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname, aka Bug Id 6631533.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-22 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update1 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update10 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update11 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update12 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update13 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update14 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update15 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update16 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update17 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update18 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update19 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update2 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update20 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update21 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update3 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update4 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update5 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update6 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update7 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update8 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update9 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update10 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update11 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update12 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update13 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update14 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update15 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update16 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update4 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update5 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update6 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update7 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update8 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update9 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update_1 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update_2 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update_3 All All
Application Sun Openjdk All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
About the security content of Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 6 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com
Advisories | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Java SE 6 Update 17 Release Notes. af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 java.sun.com Vendor Advisory
JDK 5.0u22 Release Notes af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 java.sun.com Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
APPLE-SA-2009-12-03-1 Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 1 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com
Bug 530098 – CVE-2009-3728 OpenJDK ICC_Profile file existence detection information leak (6631533) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Apple Mac OS X update for Java - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Sun JDK/JRE: Multiple vulnerabilites af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Gentoo updates for sun-jre-bin, sun-jdk, blackdown-jre, blackdown-jdk, and emul-linux-x86-java - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
About the security content of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 1 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com
APPLE-SA-2009-12-03-2 Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 6 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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