CVE-2005-1080

17

FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1080 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in the Java Archive Tool (Jar) utility, affecting J2SE SDK versions 1.4.2 and 1.5, as well as OpenJDK. This flaw allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files on a system by embedding ".." (dot dot) sequences within filenames inside a .jar file. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity to impact integrity (overwrite files), but without affecting confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		1.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:sun:sdk:1.4.2:::::::*
		1.5CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:sun:sdk:1.5:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

CvssVersion

2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

5.85%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

92.4%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0585 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (25)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.79-1jpp.1.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.95-1jpp.3.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.8.0-oracle-1:1.8.0.45-1jpp.2.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.79-1jpp.1.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.95-1jpp.3.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.8.0-oracle-1:1.8.0.45-1jpp.2.el7_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.79-1jpp.1.el7_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.95-1jpp.3.el7_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.79-2.5.5.2.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.35-1.13.7.1.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.4-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.9.0-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.16.10-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.79-2.5.5.1.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.35-1.13.7.1.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.45-28.b13.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.79-2.5.5.1.ael7b_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.35-1.13.7.1.el7_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.45-30.b13.el7_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.4-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.4-1jpp.1.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.4-1jpp.1.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.16.10-1jpp.1.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.0-1jpp.2.el7_1

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-1080Low

jar: directory traversal vulnerability

References