CVE-2008-5341

Jdk vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

3.0%

EPSS pct

86th

Exploited

No known

Unspecified vulnerability in Java Web Start (JWS) and Java Plug-in with Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier, and JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and earlier, allows untrusted JWS applications to obtain the pathname of the JWS cache and the application username via unknown vectors, aka CR 6727071.

Affected vendor

Sun

Affected product

Jdk

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information

Published

2008-12-05

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

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