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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CVE-2008-1186

High
9.3/10

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in the Virtual Machine for Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and JDK 5.0 Update 13 and earlier, and SDK/JRE 1.4.2_16 and earlier, allows remote attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted application or applet, a different issue than CVE-2008-1185, aka "the second issue."

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE

CWE-264 - Permissions Privileges and Access Controls

CWE 264 (permissions, privileges, and access controls) is not a weakness in and of itself, rather it is a category of weaknesses related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features used to perform access control. If not addressed, the weaknesses in this category allow attackers to gain privileges for an unintended sphere of control, access sensitive information, and execute arbitrary commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published