CVE-2008-3440

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Sun Java 1.6.0_03 and earlier versions, and possibly later versions, does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.

Affected products

Sun Java: through 1.6.0; 1.6.0, 1.6.0-01, 1.6.0-02

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020584
http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco%20Amato%20-%20evilgrade%20-%20ENG.pdf
http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020584
http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco%20Amato%20-%20evilgrade%20-%20ENG.pdf
http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz

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