CVE-2010-4450

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 23 and earlier for Solaris and Linux; 5.0 Update 27 and earlier for Solaris and Linux; and 1.4.2_29 and earlier for Solaris and Linux allows local standalone applications to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Launcher. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the February 2011 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a downstream vendor that this issue is an untrusted search path vulnerability involving an empty LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.

Published: 2011-02-17 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2010-4450 is rated Low Risk (28.6/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.17%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2010-4450

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-04-24 0.09% 0.17% +0.08%
2 2023-03-07 1.55% 0.09% -1.45%
3 2022-02-04 1.55%

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2010-4450

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
3.7 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
1.9 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2010-4450

OS Trackers for CVE-2010-4450

vendor priority summary link
gentoo high CVE-2010-4450: 2 GLSA(s) (201111-02, 201406-32), 4 atom(s) (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-java, dev-java/icedtea-bin, dev-java/sun-jdk, dev-java/sun-jre-bin); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2010-4450
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4450
ubuntu medium CVE-2010-4450 medium priority: Ubuntu including 4 source packages (openjdk-6, openjdk-6b18, sun-java5, sun-java6), 32 status rows across 8 suites (dapper, hardy, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, upstream): released 18, DNE 9, not-affected 3, ignored 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-4450

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2010-4450

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
sun jre <= 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:*:update_23:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_10:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_11:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_12:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_13:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_14:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_15:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_16:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_17:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_18:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_19:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_20:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_21:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_22:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_3:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_4:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_5:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_6:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.6.0:update_7:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk <= 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:*:update_23:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_10:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_11:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_12:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_13:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_14:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_15:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_16:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_17:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_18:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_19:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_20:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_21:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_22:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_3:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_4:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_5:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_6:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update_7:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update1:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update1_b06:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update2:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk <= 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:*:update27:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update1:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update10:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update11:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update12:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update13:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update14:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update15:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update16:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update17:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update18:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update19:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update2:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update20:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update21:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update22:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update23:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update24:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update25:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update26:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update3:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update4:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update5:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update6:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update7:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update8:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update9:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun sdk <= 1.4.2_29 cpe:2.3:a:sun:sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun sdk 1.4.2 cpe:2.3:a:sun:sdk:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun sdk 1.4.2_1 cpe:2.3:a:sun:sdk:1.4.2_1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun sdk 1.4.2_02 cpe:2.3:a:sun:sdk:1.4.2_02:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun sdk 1.4.2_3 cpe:2.3:a:sun:sdk:1.4.2_3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun sdk 1.4.2_4 cpe:2.3:a:sun:sdk:1.4.2_4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun sdk 1.4.2_5 cpe:2.3:a:sun:sdk:1.4.2_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2010-4450

URL Tags
http://dbhole.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/icedtea-web-1-0-1-released/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/054115.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/054134.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134254866602253&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134254957702612&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/43350 Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2224
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/soft1/global/security/info/vuls/HS11-003/index.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:054
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2011-301950.html Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpufeb2011-304611.html Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0281.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0282.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46397
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65406
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12420
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14135
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