CVE-2008-3109: Sun JDK

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in scripting language support in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 Update 6 and earlier allows 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 6; version 6 only
• Sun JRE: up to and including 6; version 6 only

Published 2008-07-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.