CVE-2008-1186

CriticalCVSS 9.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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."

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 9.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Mar 6, 2008
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2008-1186: Critical severity, CVSS 9.3 | Vulnix