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CVE-2008-0628

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-02-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The XML parsing code in Sun Java Runtime Environment JDK and JRE 6 Update 3 and earlier processes external entity references even when the "external general entities" property is false, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML external entity (XXE) attacks and cause a denial of service or access restricted resources.

Affected products

• Sun Jdk: 1.6
• Sun Jre: through 1.6.0

References

• http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/277
• http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-002.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28746
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29841
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29858
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30780
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3621
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-231246-1
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0245.html

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