CVE-2008-3103

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-07-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Management Extensions (JMX) management agent in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 Update 6 and earlier and JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 15 and earlier, when local monitoring is enabled, allows remote attackers to "perform unauthorized operations" via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Sun Jdk: through 5.0; through 6; 5.0-update_1, 5.0-update_10, 5.0-update_11, 5.0-update_12, 5.0-update_13, 5.0-update_14 (+13)
Sun Jre: through 5.0; through 6; 5.0-update_1, 5.0-update_10, 5.0-update_11, 5.0-update_12, 5.0-update_13, 5.0-update_14 (+13)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00009.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122331139823057&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/31010
http://secunia.com/advisories/31055
http://secunia.com/advisories/31497
http://secunia.com/advisories/31600
http://secunia.com/advisories/32018
http://secunia.com/advisories/32179
http://secunia.com/advisories/32180
http://secunia.com/advisories/32394

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