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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2008-0657 json

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 1 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 13 and earli…

published 2008-02-07 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-0667

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.8%
EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 1 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 13 and earlier, allow 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.

Patch / fix

  • java-1.5.0-ibm network satellite 5.1 1:1.5.0.8-1jpp.1.el4
  • java-1.5.0-bea RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.14-1jpp.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-bea-src RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.14-1jpp.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-bea-demo RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.14-1jpp.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-bea-jdbc RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.14-1jpp.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-bea-missioncontrol RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.14-1jpp.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-ibm RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1:1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4
  • java-1.5.0-ibm RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0638RHSA-2008:0156RHSA-2008:0210RHSA-2008:0123

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-2008-0657 updated

java-1.5.0 Privilege escalation via unstrusted applet and application

  • Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el4, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el4, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el5, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el4, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-bea 1.5.0.14-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-bea-src 1.5.0.14-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el5, +11 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el4, +5 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0210
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.1 (RHEL v.4 AS) java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.8-1jpp.1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0638

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

2.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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-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.