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CVE-2008-1187

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1187 describes an unspecified vulnerability in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and JDK versions 6 Update 4 and earlier, 5.0 Update 14 and earlier, and SDK/JRE 1.4.2_16 and earlier, related to XSLT transforms. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (JRE crash) and potentially execute arbitrary code. With a CVSS score of 6.8, it is considered medium severity, requiring medium attack complexity and posing potential impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and 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

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:*:update_14:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:*:update_4:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:5.0:update_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:5.0:update_10:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:5.0:update_11:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0542 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (14)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 3Fixed in: java-1.4.2-bea-0:1.4.2.16-1jpp.2.el3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 3Fixed in: java-1.4.2-ibm-0:1.4.2.11-1jpp.2.el3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: java-1.5.0-sun-0:1.5.0.15-1jpp.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: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: java-1.4.2-ibm-0:1.4.2.11-1jpp.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-0:1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.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
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.4.2-bea-0:1.4.2.16-1jpp.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.2.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-bea-1:1.6.0.03-1jpp.2.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.4.2-ibm-0:1.4.2.11-1jpp.2.el5
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vmwarepatch availablevia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-1187Critical

Untrusted applet and application XSLT processing privilege escalation

Mar 6, 2008

References

dev2dev.bea.com / pub/advisory/277
download.novell.com / Download
Patch
jvndb.jvn.jp / ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000016.html
jvn.jp / en/jp/JVN04032535/index.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00008.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00000.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html
secunia.com / advisories/29239
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29273
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29498
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29582
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29841
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29858
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29897
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29999
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/30003
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/30676
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/30780
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/31067
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/31497
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/31580
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/31586
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32018
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/41025
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10278
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
PatchVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT3178
support.apple.com / kb/HT3179
support.novell.com / docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5033642.html
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0186.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0210.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0243.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0244.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0245.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0267.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0555.html
securitytracker.com / id
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA08-066A.html
US Government Resource
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0010.html
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0770/references
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1252
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1856/references
Vendor Advisory