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CVE-2008-0657

Affected software2 products, listed below
Severity10.0 High CVSS 2.0
WeaknessCWE-264
Published7 Feb 2008
Updated16 Jun 2026

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 1 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 13 and earlier, allow 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.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published 18 years ago.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 2.8% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

No exploit published

Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.

VRT has not found a public code change for this CVE yet.

  • Protection none
  • Action not pursued
  • Review automated Upstream data
  • Record active
Decided by Nothing to build a rule from yet: no published exploit, no CISA record of exploitation and no source-level change to read
Finding This CVE affects a known product, but nothing published names a fix and nothing published shows an exploit. That is a statement about the evidence, not about the defect — it does not mean the vulnerability is unimportant or unreachable, only that neither of the two things VRT can act on exists.

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

2 products, 3 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd sun jdk javase ≤ 5.0.13.0
nvd sun jre javase ≤ 5.0.0.0 · ≤ 6.0.0.0

References

URLTags
http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/277
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28795 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28888
http://secunia.com/advisories/29214
http://secunia.com/advisories/29498
http://secunia.com/advisories/29841
http://secunia.com/advisories/29858
http://secunia.com/advisories/29897
http://secunia.com/advisories/30676

Timeline

Published2008-02-07By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-16NVD's own last-modified date for this record.