{"cve":"CVE-2003-0896","nvd":{"published":"2003-11-17T05:00:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T22:03:08.760","status":"Modified","description":"The loadClass method of the sun.applet.AppletClassLoader class in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in Sun SDK and JRE 1.4.1_03 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass sandbox restrictions and execute arbitrary code via a loaded class name that contains \"/\" (slash) instead of \".\" (dot) characters, which bypasses a call to the Security Manager's checkPackageAccess method.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["http://lsd-pl.net/code/JVM/jre.tar.gz","http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106692334503819&w=2","http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57221","http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200356-1","http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/6028"],"products":["sun:jre"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:35:54.859949650+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2003-0896","score":0.14318,"percentile":0.96607,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}