MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2011-3557

Jdk vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
3.5%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 7, 6 Update 27 and earlier, 5.0 Update 31 and earlier, 1.4.2_33 and earlier, and JRockit R28.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability, related to RMI, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3556.
Affected vendor
Sun
Affected product
Jdk
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2011-10-19

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 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2011-3557

  • Confirm whether Sun Jdk is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-3557.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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