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CVE-2008-3107: Sun JDK: Privilege escalation

CVE-2008-3107 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Sun JDK. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Virtual Machine in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 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 gain privileges via an untrusted (1) application or (2) applet, as demonstrated by an application or applet that grants itself privileges to (a) read local files, (b) write to local files, or (c) execute local programs.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • Sun JDK: up to and including 5.0; up to and including 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; 5.0 update_2; 5.0 update_3; 5.0 update_4; 5.0 update_5
  • Sun JRE: up to and including 1.4.2_17; up to and including 5.0; up to and including 6; 1.4.2; 1.4.2_01; 1.4.2_02; 1.4.2_03; 1.4.2_3; 1.4.2_04; 1.4.2_05; 1.4.2_06; 1.4.2_07
  • Sun Sdk: up to and including 1.4.2_17; 1.4.2_02; 1.4.2_03; 1.4.2_04; 1.4.2_05; 1.4.2_06; 1.4.2_07; 1.4.2_08; 1.4.2_09; 1.4.2_10; 1.4.2_11; 1.4.2_12

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