Vulnerability in Sun Jdk

CVE-2008-3112

Directory traversal vulnerability in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 7, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via the writeManifest method in the CacheEntry class, aka CR 6703909.

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.257 (97.9th percentile), scored .

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2008-3112: held from 0.257 to 0.257.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.257 · newest: 0.257 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Sun Jdk — versions 5.0, 6
  • Sun Jre — versions 1.4.2, 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_02
  • Sun Sdk — versions 1.4.2, 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_02

Weakness classification (CWE)

References