$ cve CVE-2010-4476 JSON

CVE-2010-4476 EXPLOIT

5.0

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 23.5% (pctl 98)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

The Double.parseDouble method in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 23 and earlier, 5.0 Update 27 and earlier, and 1.4.2_29 and earlier, as used in OpenJDK, Apache, JBossweb, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted string that triggers an infinite loop of estimations during conversion to a double-precision binary floating-point number, as demonstrated using 2.2250738585072012e-308.

Scoring

CVSS	5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS	23.49% — more likely to be exploited than 98% of all CVEs
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2011-02-17
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (3)

Vendor	Product
sun	jdk
sun	jre
sun	sdk

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Oracle Java - Floating-Point Value Denial of Service	2011-02-01

References

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