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CVE-2008-0657

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-0657 describes multiple critical vulnerabilities in Sun JDK and JRE versions 6 Update 1 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 13 and earlier. These flaws allow untrusted applications or applets to escalate privileges, enabling them to read, write, or execute local files. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its critical nature, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:*:update13:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:*:update1:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 5.0_update13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0284 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: java-1.5.0-sun-0:1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.1Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.8-1jpp.1.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.5.0-sun-0:1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.5.0-bea-0:1.5.0.14-1jpp.1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-0657Important

java-1.5.0 Privilege escalation via unstrusted applet and application

Feb 5, 2008

References

dev2dev.bea.com / pub/advisory/277
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html
secunia.com / advisories/28795
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28888
secunia.com / advisories/29214
secunia.com / advisories/29498
secunia.com / advisories/29841
secunia.com / advisories/29858
secunia.com / advisories/29897
secunia.com / advisories/30676
secunia.com / advisories/30780
secunia.com / advisories/31497
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11505
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0123.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0156.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0210.html
securityfocus.com / bid/27650
securitytracker.com / id
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0010.html
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0429
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1252
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1856/references