CVE-2016-0687

critical

Published 2016-04-21 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

9.6

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.6

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u113, 7u99, and 8u77 and Java SE Embedded 8u77 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to the Hotspot sub-component.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

96%

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
sles		affected
debian	sid	fixed	`8u91-b14-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
oracle	jdk	`1.6.0`
oracle	jdk	`1.7.0`
oracle	jdk	`1.8.0`
oracle	jre	`1.6.0`
oracle	jre	`1.7.0`
oracle	jre	`1.8.0`

References

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

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