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CVE-2015-3149

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The Hotspot component in OpenJDK8 as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: 7.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 6.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 6.6z, 7.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1228.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75933
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213365
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1228.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75933
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213365

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