CVE-2008-1191

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 4 and earlier allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via an untrusted application, a different issue than CVE-2008-1190, aka "The fifth issue."

Affected products

Sun Jdk: through 6_update_4
Sun Jre: through 6_update_4

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29239
http://secunia.com/advisories/29273
http://secunia.com/advisories/29582
http://secunia.com/advisories/29858
http://secunia.com/advisories/30676
http://secunia.com/advisories/30780
http://secunia.com/advisories/32018
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-233323-1
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178

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