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critical 10.0

CVE-2008-4910 in the critical feed json

The BasicService in Sun Java Web Start allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs on a client machine via a file:// URL argument…

published 2008-11-04 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-4889

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.3%
EPSS 10.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The BasicService in Sun Java Web Start allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs on a client machine via a file:// URL argument to the showDocument method.

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-2008-4910 updated

Java Web Start Arbitrary File Execution via file URL

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-32529)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

10.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-32529 Sun Java Web Start 1.0/1.2 - Remote Command Execution remote, 2008-10-25

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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