CVE-2008-5341: Sun JDK

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in Java Web Start (JWS) and Java Plug-in with Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier, and JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and earlier, allows untrusted JWS applications to obtain the pathname of the JWS cache and the application username via unknown vectors, aka CR 6727071.

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_18; up to and including 5.0; up to and including 6; version 1.4.2_1 only; version 1.4.2_2 only; version 1.4.2_3 only; …
• Sun SDK: up to and including 1.4.2_18; version 1.4.2_1 only; version 1.4.2_2 only; version 1.4.2_3 only; version 1.4.2_4 only; version 1.4.2_5 only; …

Published 2008-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.