Unspecified vulnerability in scripting language support in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 Update 6 and earlier allows…

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in scripting language support in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 Update 6 and earlier 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 11% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

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 (28)

• 20081004 VMSA-2008-0016 VMware Hosted products, VirtualCenter Update 3 and (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 32436 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-428.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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
• sun-jre-scripting-unauth-access(43660) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 238687 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_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
• 30144 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2008-09-24 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2056 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8540 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0594 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-509.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:1045 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 33238 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1020456 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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
• RHSA-2008:0906 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_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
• 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.