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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2008-1191 json

Unspecified vulnerability in Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 4 and earlier allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via…

published 2008-03-06 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-1200

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 4 and earlier allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via an untrusted application, a different issue than CVE-2008-1190, aka "The fifth issue."

Patch / fix

  • oracle java_se 1.7.0, 7.0.0
  • oracle jdk 1.7.0, 7.0.0
  • oracle jre 1.7.0, 7.0.0
  • sun java 1.7.0, 7.0.0
  • sun java_se 1.7.0, 7.0.0
  • sun jdk 1.7.0, 7.0.0
  • sun jre 1.7.0, 7.0.0
  • oracle openjdk 1.7.0, 7.0.0
  • sun openjdk 1.7.0, 7.0.0
  • java-1.6.0-ibm RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-src RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-demo RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-jdbc RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-javacomm RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-accessibility RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0267

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-1191 updated

Untrusted Java Web Start arbitrary file creation

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-demo 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-jdbc 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-plugin 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-javacomm 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-demo 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-jdbc 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-plugin 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-javacomm 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0267

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.