CVE-2008-1188

highpriority · track · 41EPSS 0.125 · 96 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

12.5% (96th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Multiple buffer overflows in the useEncodingDecl function in Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 4 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 14 and earlier, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JNLP file with (1) a long key name in the xml header or (2) a long charset value, different issues than CVE-2008-1189, aka "The first two issues."

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v2.07.9highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USprimary

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
sun jdk= 1.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jdk= 1.6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre= 1.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun jre= 1.6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-03-06modified 2026-06-16

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references (64)

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