CVE-2015-5041

critical

Published 2016-06-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

9.1

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.1

Description

The J9 JVM in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition 6 before SR16 FP20, 6 R1 before SR8 FP20, 7 before SR9 FP30, and 7 R1 before SR3 FP30 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or inject data by invoking non-public interface methods.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

94%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
suse	11	affected
suse	12	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
ibm	java_sdk	`{"startIncluding":"6.0.0.0","endExcluding":"6.0.16.20"}`	`6.0.16.20`
ibm	websphere_application_server	`{"endIncluding":"3.0.9.20"}`
redhat	satellite	`5.6`
redhat	satellite	`5.7`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.