VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5548

medium
Published 2017-01-27 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded component of Oracle Java SE (subcomponent: Libraries). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 6u131, 7u121 and 8u112; Java SE Embedded: 8u111. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Java SE Embedded. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Java SE, Java SE Embedded accessible data. Note: This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability does not apply to Java deployments, typically in servers, that load and run only trusted code (e.g., code installed by an administrator). CVSS v3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality impacts).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5548

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5548.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert_us@oracle.com — http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed8u121-b13-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
oraclejdk1.6
oraclejdk1.7
oraclejdk1.8
oraclejre1.6
oraclejre1.7
oraclejre1.8

References

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