{
    "id": "CVE-2006-2426",
    "published": "2006-05-17 10:06:00",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-16 22:24:59",
    "cvss_score": "6.4",
    "cvss_severity": "MEDIUM",
    "cvss_version": "2.0",
    "cvss_vector": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P",
    "cwe": null,
    "description": "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.",
    "epss_score": "0.12692",
    "epss_percentile": "0.96129",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-27 18:17:05",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "sun",
            "product": "jdk"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "sun",
            "product": "jre"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "sun",
            "product": "sdk"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "27882",
            "title": "Sun Java Applet - Font.createFont Remote Denial of Service",
            "date": "2006-05-15",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27882"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/20132",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/20457",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/34489",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/34495",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/34496",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/34632",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/34675",
        "http://securityreason.com/securityalert/909",
        "http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-108.htm",
        "http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-109.htm",
        "http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1769",
        "http://www.illegalaccess.org/exploit/FullDiskApplet.html",
        "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:137",
        "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:162",
        "http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html",
        "http://www.osvdb.org/25561",
        "http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0392.html",
        "http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0394.html",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434001/100/0/threaded",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17981",
        "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-748-1",
        "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1824",
        "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26493",
        "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10609",
        "https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0377.html"
    ]
}