CVE-2008-5342: Sun JDK

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

Unspecified vulnerability in the BasicService for Java Web Start (JWS) and Java Plug-in with Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier; JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and earlier; and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_18 and earlier allows untrusted downloaded applications to cause local files to be displayed in the browser of the user of the untrusted application via unknown vectors, aka 6767668.

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.