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CVE-2006-0617

Affected software2 products, listed below
Severity4.0 Medium CVSS 2.0
Published9 Feb 2006
Updated16 Jun 2026

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Sun Java JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 5 and earlier allow remote attackers to bypass Java sandbox security and obtain privileges via unspecified vectors involving the reflection APIs, aka the "fifth, sixth, and seventh issues."

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published 20 years ago.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 3.8% 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 automated Upstream data
  • Record active
Decided by Nothing to build a rule from yet: no published exploit, no CISA record of exploitation and no source-level change to read
Finding This CVE affects a known product, but nothing published names a fix and nothing published shows an exploit. That is a statement about the evidence, not about the defect — it does not mean the vulnerability is unimportant or unreachable, only that neither of the two things VRT can act on exists.

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

2 products, 2 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd sun jdk javase ≤ 5.0.0.0
nvd sun jre javase ≤ 5.0.0.0

References

URLTags
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303658
http://secunia.com/advisories/18760 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18884
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015596
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102171-1 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-07.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/759996 US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0467
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0828
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1398

Timeline

Published2006-02-09By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-16NVD's own last-modified date for this record.