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HIGH

JDK untrusted applet/application privilege escalation (6661918)

Published Jul 9, 2008

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Virtual Machine in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 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 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

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (30)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jul 9, 2008
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jul 9, 2008
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Critical
Public date Jul 8, 2008