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CVE-2008-5342

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…

Medium5.0EPSS 3.0%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
mitre

Description

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.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By mitre

  2. · 1 day later

    Published

  3. · 16 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2008-5342, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Medium5.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
3.0% · top 12% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

Affected products

  • n/a

    • affected n/a

References (33)

Sources

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