CVE-2008-0657

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 4
Modified
Published: 07 Feb 2008, 20:00
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 07:54

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100
CVSS Score
10 HIGH
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
2.02% LOW
2% probability +0.24%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

07 Feb 2008, 20:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 07:54
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 1 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 13 and earlier, allow context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted (1) application or (2) applet, as demonstrated by an application or applet that grants itself privileges to (a) read local files, (b) write to local files, or (c) execute local programs.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 2.02%• Percentile: 84%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-264•Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

    Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Affected Systems

  • sun•jdk

    ≤ 5.0_update13

  • sun•jre

    ≤ 1.5.0 | ≤ 1.6.0

References (26)