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CVE detail

CVE-2016-0603

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java SE component in Oracle Java SE 6u111, 7u95, 8u71, and 8u72, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Install. NOTE: the previous information is from Oracle's Security Alert for CVE-2016-0603. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that this is an untrusted search path issue that allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse dll in the "application directory."

CVSS 7.6 · HighBuzz score 24.1

Buzz score

Why this CVE is surfacing

Buzz score total 24.1

This all-time snapshot uses the same composite formula as Trending across a 30-year evidence window, rather than a current rolling window.

Buzz score components · mention 16.1 · diversity 8.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Mention score
16.1
4 evidence mentions in the snapshot
Diversity score
8.0
3 sources across 1 categories
KEV score
0.0
No KEV entry observed
OTX score
0.0
0 OTX pulses
PoC score
0.0
0 repos · best confidence N/A
Best PoC traction
0
Maximum stars on a matched PoC repo

Why it matters now

Mention timeline

Total mentions
0
within the 30d window
Peak daily
0
highest bucket

Evidence

Source links by recency

Newest mentions first
4 source links · newest first
  • A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Google patched Nexus devices, including a critical Wi-Fi flaw How to thwart the passcode lock screen on iOS 8 and 9? Security Affairs newsletter Round 46 – News of the week Dyre crackdown, the biggest effort to […]

    newssecurityaffairs.comFeb 14, 2016, 12:02 PM
  • Oracle pushes out emergency fix for Java SEHelp Net Security

    Oracle has patched a vulnerability (CVE-2016-0603) in Java SE (Standard Edition) 6, 7 or 8 on the Windows platform, which could be exploited by attackers looking for ways to completely compromise a target’s system. “To be successfully exploited, this vulnerability requires that an unsuspecting user be tricked into visiting a malicious web site and download files into the user’s system before installing Java SE 6, 7 or 8,” the company explained in a security advisory … More →

    newswww.helpnetsecurity.comFeb 9, 2016, 1:56 PM
  • Oracle issued an out-of-box emergency patch for Java platform running on Windows machines that fixes the critical vulnerability coded as CVE-2016-0603. Oracle issued an out-of-box emergency patch for Java software running on Windows systems that fixes a critical vulnerability coded as CVE-2016-0603. The vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to trick users into visiting a malicious […]

    newssecurityaffairs.comFeb 8, 2016, 2:55 PM
  • Oracle has released updates for Java 6, 7 and 8 to address a high severity vulnerability that can be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker for arbitrary code execution.

    newswww.securityweek.comFeb 8, 2016, 9:21 AM

Exploit code

Public exploit repository references

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