CVE-2008-0657: Sun JDK

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 1 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 13 and earlier, allow context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted (1) application or (2) applet, as demonstrated by an application or applet that grants itself privileges to (a) read local files, (b) write to local files, or (c) execute local programs.

Affected products

• Sun JDK: up to and including 5.0_update13
• Sun JRE: up to and including 1.5.0; up to and including 1.6.0

Published 2008-02-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.