CVE-2016-0363

high

Published 2016-06-03 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

8.1

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.1

Description

The com.ibm.CORBA.iiop.ClientDelegate class in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition 6 before SR16 FP25 (6.0.16.25), 6 R1 before SR8 FP25 (6.1.8.25), 7 before SR9 FP40 (7.0.9.40), 7 R1 before SR3 FP40 (7.1.3.40), and 8 before SR3 (8.0.3.0) uses the invoke method of the java.lang.reflect.Method class in an AccessController doPrivileged block, which allows remote attackers to call setSecurityManager and bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors related to a Proxy object instance implementing the java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler interface. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-3009.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

88%

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
sles		affected
suse	11.0	affected
suse	12.0	affected
rhel	6.0	affected
rhel	7.0	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
redhat	satellite	`5.6`
redhat	satellite	`5.7`
novell	suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit	`11.0`
novell	suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit	`12.0`
ibm	java_sdk	`{"startIncluding":"6.0.0.0","endExcluding":"6.0.16.25"}`	`6.0.16.25`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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