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CVE-2005-0836 J2SE

Affected softwareJ2SE
Severity10.0 High CVSS 2.0
Published2 May 2005
Updated16 Jun 2026

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Java Web Start for J2SE 1.4.2 up to 1.4.2_06 allows untrusted applications to gain privileges via the value parameter of a property tag in a JNLP file.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published 21 years ago.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 2.9% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

No exploit published

Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.

VRT has not found a public code change for this CVE yet.

  • Protection none
  • Action not pursued
  • Review human Researcher
  • Record active
Decided by Manual classification of this CVE in the legacy dataset
Finding A manual classification set this CVE's status to No source fix or exploit.

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

1 product, 7 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd sun j2se generic 1.4.2 · 1.4.2_01 · 1.4.2_02 · 1.4.2_03 · 1.4.2_04 · 1.4.2_05 · 1.4.2_06

References

URLTags
http://jouko.iki.fi/adv/ws.html
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=111117284323657&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/14640 Vendor Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57740-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200255-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1000200.1-1
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-28.xml Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_32_java2.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12847 Patch

Timeline

Published2005-05-02By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-16NVD's own last-modified date for this record.