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CVE-2008-5353

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 85.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-12-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier; JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and earlier; and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_18 and earlier does not properly enforce context of ZoneInfo objects during deserialization, which allows remote attackers to run untrusted applets and applications in a privileged context, as demonstrated by "deserializing Calendar objects".

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 (+19)
• Sun Jre: through 1.4.2_18; through 5.0; through 6; 1.4.2_1, 1.4.2_2, 1.4.2_3, 1.4.2_4, 1.4.2_5, 1.4.2_6 (+37)
• Sun Sdk: through 1.4.2_18; 1.4.2_1, 1.4.2_2, 1.4.2_3, 1.4.2_4, 1.4.2_5, 1.4.2_6 (+11)

References

• http://blog.cr0.org/2009/05/write-once-own-everyone.html
• http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/CVE-2008-5353.20090519.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00009.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123678756409861&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=126583436323697&w=2
• http://osvdb.org/50500
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1018.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1025.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32991

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