Is CVE-2006-2426 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2006-2426 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2006-2426?

CVE-2006-2426 has a CVSS v2 base score of 6.4 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2006-2426?

CVE-2006-2426 has an EPSS score of 12.69% (96th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2006-2426

MEDIUMEPSS 96th pctl

6.4

CVSS v2

NVD

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.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

12.69%probability of exploitation in 30 days

96thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.

References

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

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-16.