CVE-2008-3112: Sun JDK

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 25.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 7, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via the writeManifest method in the CacheEntry class, aka CR 6703909.

Affected products

• Sun JDK: up to and including 5.0; up to and including 6; version 5.0 only; version 6 only
• Sun JRE: up to and including 1.4.2_17; up to and including 5.0; up to and including 6; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.2_01 only; version 1.4.2_02 only; …
• Sun SDK: version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.2_01 only; version 1.4.2_02 only; version 1.4.2_03 only; version 1.4.2_04 only; version 1.4.2_05 only; …

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