CVE-2008-3107

Summary

CVECVE-2008-3107
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-07-09 23:41:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionUnspecified 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 10 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-264 | NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_1 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_10 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_11 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_12 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_13 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_14 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_2 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_3 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_4 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_5 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_6 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_7 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_8 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_9 All All
Application Sun Jdk 6 update_1 All All
Application Sun Jdk 6 update_2 All All
Application Sun Jdk 6 update_3 All All
Application Sun Jdk 6 update_4 All All
Application Sun Jdk 6 update_5 All All
Application Sun Jdk All update_15 All All
Application Sun Jdk All update_6 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_01 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_02 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_03 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_04 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_05 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_06 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_07 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_10 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_11 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_12 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_13 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_14 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_15 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_16 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_3 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_8 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_9 All All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_1 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_10 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_11 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_12 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_13 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_14 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_2 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_3 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_4 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_5 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_6 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_7 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_8 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_9 All All
Application Sun Jre 6 update_1 All All
Application Sun Jre 6 update_2 All All
Application Sun Jre 6 update_3 All All
Application Sun Jre 6 update_4 All All
Application Sun Jre 6 update_5 All All
Application Sun Jre All All All All
Application Sun Jre All update_15 All All
Application Sun Jre All update_6 All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_02 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_03 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_04 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_05 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_06 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_07 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_08 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_09 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_10 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_11 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_12 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_13 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_14 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_15 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_16 All All All
Application Sun Sdk All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
About the security content of Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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