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CVE-2016-0603

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-0603 is an unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE (versions 6u111, 7u95, 8u71, 8u72) running on Windows, potentially allowing remote attackers to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability through unknown vectors related to the Java installer. With a CVSS score of 7.6, this vulnerability has a high attack complexity but could lead to complete compromise of the system. While Oracle has not confirmed third-party claims of an untrusted search path issue enabling privilege escalation via a Trojan horse DLL, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available. Despite this, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:1.6.0:update111:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:1.7.0:update95:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:1.8.0:update71:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:1.8.0:update72:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.6.0:update111:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.6HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0407 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 8,918 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2016/Feb/54
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201610-08
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20160217-0001
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2016-0603-2874360.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/537462/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/83008
securitytracker.com / id/1034969