CVE-2008-1185

Jdk vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

5.6%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

Unspecified vulnerability in the Virtual Machine for Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and JDK 6 Update 4 and earlier, 5.0 Update 14 and earlier, and SDK/JRE 1.4.2_16 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted application or applet, a different issue than CVE-2008-1186, aka "the first issue."

Affected vendor

Sun

Affected product

Jdk

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Published

2008-03-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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