CVE-2008-3106

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% 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 Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 Update 6 and earlier and JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 15 and earlier allows remote attackers to access URLs via unknown vectors involving processing of XML data by an untrusted (1) application or (2) applet, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-3105.

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/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00002.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122331139823057&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/31010
http://secunia.com/advisories/31320
http://secunia.com/advisories/31497
http://secunia.com/advisories/31600
http://secunia.com/advisories/31736
http://secunia.com/advisories/32018
http://secunia.com/advisories/32179

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