CVE-2006-2426

mediumpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.127 · 96 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

12.7% (96th) EPSS

CVSS 6.4 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.4

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.4mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 4.9

v2.05.8mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USLLM-inferredCWE-400USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-27882Sun Java Applet - Font.createFont Remote Denial of Servicefunctional · exploit_db

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
sun jdk= 1.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre= 1.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun sdk= 1.5.0_6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sun:sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2006-05-17modified 2026-06-16

references (50)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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