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CVE-2008-3114

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% 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-200

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 7, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information (the cache location) via an untrusted application, aka CR 6704074.

Affected products

• Sun Jdk: through 5.0; through 6; 5.0-update_10, 5.0-update_11, 5.0-update_12, 5.0-update_13, 5.0-update_14, 5.0-update_2 (+12)
• Sun Jre: through 1.4.2_17; through 5.0; through 6; 1.4.2, 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_02, 1.4.2_03, 1.4.2_04, 1.4.2_05 (+30)
• Sun Sdk: through 1.4.2_17; 1.4.2, 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_02, 1.4.2_03, 1.4.2_04, 1.4.2_05 (+11)

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/2008-09/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00003.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122331139823057&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0955.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31010
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31055
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31320
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31497

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