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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2008-3103 json

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Management Extensions (JMX) management agent in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 U…

published 2008-07-09 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-3093

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.1%
EPSS 5.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Management Extensions (JMX) management agent in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 Update 6 and earlier and JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 15 and earlier, when local monitoring is enabled, allows remote attackers to "perform unauthorized operations" via unspecified vectors.

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-1.5.0-ibm network satellite 5.2 1:1.5.0.9-1jpp.4.el4
  • java-1.5.0-ibm network satellite 5.2 1:1.5.0.9-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.6.0-ibm RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el4
  • java-1.6.0-ibm RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-src RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el4
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-src RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-demo RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el4
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-demo RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:0466RHSA-2008:0906RHSA-2008:0891RHSA-2008:0595RHSA-2008:0594RHSA-2008:0636

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-2008-3103 updated

OpenJDK JMX allows illegal operations with local monitoring (6332953)

  • Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.8-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.16-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.8-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el4, +16 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.8-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.16-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.8-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el4, +16 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.8-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.7-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.16-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.8-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el5, +18 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.8-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.16-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.8-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el4, +16 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.8-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.7-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.16-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.8-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el5, +18 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.8-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.16-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.8-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el4, +16 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0891
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.1 (RHEL v.4 AS) java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.16-1jpp.2.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0636
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.2 (RHEL v.4 AS) java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.9-1jpp.4.el4 Red Hat Satellite 5.2 (RHEL v.5) java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.9-1jpp.2.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:0466

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

5.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

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.