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CVE-2008-5347

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5347 describes multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier. These flaws allow untrusted applets and applications to escalate privileges by exploiting access to inner classes within the JAX-WS and JAXB packages. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:*:update_10:*:*:*:*:*:*
6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:6:update_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:6:update_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:6:update_3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0343 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.11-1jpp.1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.3-1jpp.3.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.11-1jpp.1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.3-1jpp.1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-5347Critical

OpenJDK applet privilege escalation via JAX package access (6592792)

Dec 3, 2008

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00001.html
marc.info
marc.info
osvdb.org / 50506
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2008-1018.html
secunia.com / advisories/32991
secunia.com / advisories/33015
secunia.com / advisories/33528
secunia.com / advisories/33709
secunia.com / advisories/34233
secunia.com / advisories/34259
secunia.com / advisories/37386
secunia.com / advisories/38539
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/47068
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5633
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
PatchVendor Advisory
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
support.nortel.com / go/main.jsp
www116.nortel.com / pub/repository/CLARIFY/DOCUMENT/2009/03/024431-01.pdf
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0015.html
securityfocus.com / bid/32608
securitytracker.com / id
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA08-340A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/3339
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0672