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CVE-2008-3112

Directory traversal vulnerability in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 7, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update

Directory traversal 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 remote attackers to create arbitrary files via the writeManifest method in the CacheEntry class, aka CR 6703909.

HIGH · CVSS 10 EPSS 0.0731
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  • EPSS percentile: top 8% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Affected Products & Versions

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sun jdk<= 5.0
sun jdk<= 6
sun jdkall versions
sun jre<= 1.4.2_17
sun jre<= 5.0
sun jre<= 6
sun jreall versions
sun sdkall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

10
HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published to NVD09 Jul 2008 · 11:41 PM
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Vendor Advisories

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rhsaRHSA-2008:0594Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2008:0906Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2008:0790Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2008:0638Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2008:0595Critical
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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
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