MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2010-3549

Jre vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
3.3%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
Unspecified vulnerability in the Networking component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 21, 5.0 Update 25, 1.4.2_27, and 1.3.1_28 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the October 2010 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a reliable downstream vendor that this is an HTTP request splitting vulnerability involving the handling of the chunked transfer encoding method by the HttpURLConnection class.
Affected vendor
Sun
Affected product
Jre
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2010-10-19

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Sun Jre is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2010-3549.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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