VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-3556

high
Published 2011-10-19 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.5

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 7, 6 Update 27 and earlier, 5.0 Update 31 and earlier, 1.4.2_33 and earlier, and JRockit R28.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability, related to RMI, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3557.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-17535 remote multiple verified
Metasploit · 2011-07-15

Java RMI - Server Insecure Default Configuration Java Code Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/misc/java_rmi_server rank 300
Java RMI Server Insecure Endpoint Code Execution Scanner
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.
exploit_multi/misc/java_rmi_server rank 600
Java RMI Server Insecure Default Configuration Java Code Execution
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
sunjdk1.7.0
sunjre1.7.0
oracle oraclejrockit{"endIncluding":"r28.1.4"}
oracle oraclejrockitr28.0.0
oracle oraclejrockitr28.0.1
oracle oraclejrockitr28.0.2
oracle oraclejrockitr28.1.0
oracle oraclejrockitr28.1.1
oracle oraclejrockitr28.1.3
sunjdk{"endIncluding":"1.6.0"}
sunjdk1.6.0
sunjre{"endIncluding":"1.6.0"}
sunjre1.6.0
sunjdk1.5.0
sunjre1.5.0
sunjdk1.4.2
sunjdk1.4.2_1
sunjdk1.4.2_2
sunjdk1.4.2_3
sunjdk1.4.2_4
sunjdk1.4.2_5
sunjdk1.4.2_6
sunjdk1.4.2_7
sunjdk1.4.2_8
sunjdk1.4.2_9
sunjdk1.4.2_10
sunjdk1.4.2_11
sunjdk1.4.2_12
sunjdk1.4.2_13
sunjdk1.4.2_14
sunjdk1.4.2_15
sunjdk1.4.2_16
sunjdk1.4.2_17
sunjdk1.4.2_18
sunjdk1.4.2_19
sunjdk1.4.2_20
sunjdk1.4.2_21
sunjdk1.4.2_22
sunjdk1.4.2_23
sunjdk1.4.2_24
sunjdk1.4.2_25
sunjdk1.4.2_26
sunjdk1.4.2_27
sunjdk1.4.2_28
sunjdk1.4.2_29
sunjdk1.4.2_30
sunjdk1.4.2_31
sunjdk1.4.2_32
sunjre1.4.2
sunjre1.4.2_1
sunjre1.4.2_2
sunjre1.4.2_3
sunjre1.4.2_4
sunjre1.4.2_5
sunjre1.4.2_6
sunjre1.4.2_7
sunjre1.4.2_8
sunjre1.4.2_9
sunjre1.4.2_10
sunjre1.4.2_11
sunjre1.4.2_12
sunjre1.4.2_13
sunjre1.4.2_14
sunjre1.4.2_15
sunjre1.4.2_16
sunjre1.4.2_17
sunjre1.4.2_18
sunjre1.4.2_19
sunjre1.4.2_20
sunjre1.4.2_21
sunjre1.4.2_22
sunjre1.4.2_23
sunjre1.4.2_24
sunjre1.4.2_25
sunjre1.4.2_26
sunjre1.4.2_27
sunjre1.4.2_28
sunjre1.4.2_29
sunjre1.4.2_30
sunjre1.4.2_31
sunjre1.4.2_32

References

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

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