Unspecified vulnerability in the Virtual Machine in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 7, JDK and JRE 5.0…

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Virtual Machine in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 7, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted (1) application or (2) applet, as demonstrated by an application or applet that grants itself privileges to (a) read local files, (b) write to local files, or (c) execute local programs.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.6% · top 10% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (26)

• 238967 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• sun-virtualmachine-unauth-access(43659) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2008-09-24 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• 20081004 VMSA-2008-0016 VMware Hosted products, VirtualCenter Update 3 and (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 1020455 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 31600 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2008:042 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 32018 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• GLSA-200911-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 32179 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2740 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 30141 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2056 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 31055 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 32180 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0594 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 31497 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10219 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• 20081004 VMSA-2008-0016 VMware Hosted products, VirtualCenter Update 3 and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve multiple security issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• TA08-193A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• 37386 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3179 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0595 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 31010 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 09:28 UTC.