CVE-2008-3109

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% 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 scripting language support in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 Update 6 and earlier allows 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.

Affected products

Sun Jdk: through 6; 6-update_1, 6-update_2, 6-update_3, 6-update_4, 6-update_5
Sun Jre: through 6; 6-update_1, 6-update_2, 6-update_3, 6-update_4, 6-update_5

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00005.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122331139823057&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/31010
http://secunia.com/advisories/31600
http://secunia.com/advisories/32018
http://secunia.com/advisories/32179
http://secunia.com/advisories/32180
http://secunia.com/advisories/32436
http://secunia.com/advisories/33238
http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml

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