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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2008-1186 json

Unspecified vulnerability in the Virtual Machine for Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and JDK 5.0 Update 13 and earlier, and SDK/JRE 1.4.…

published 2008-03-06 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-1195

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.6%
EPSS 5.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in the Virtual Machine for Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and JDK 5.0 Update 13 and earlier, and SDK/JRE 1.4.2_16 and earlier, allows remote attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted application or applet, a different issue than CVE-2008-1185, aka "the second issue."

Patch / fix

  • java-1.5.0-sun RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4
  • java-1.5.0-sun RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.5.0-sun-src RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4
  • java-1.5.0-sun-src RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.5.0-sun-demo RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4
  • java-1.5.0-sun-demo RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4
  • java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0186

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-2008-1186 updated

Untrusted applet and application privilege escalation (CVE-2008-1186)

  • Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-demo 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-plugin 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-demo 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-plugin 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-demo 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-plugin 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-demo 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-plugin 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-demo 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-plugin 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-demo 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-plugin 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0186

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Exploit prediction

5.56% 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.