CVE-2007-5237
Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier does not properly enforce access restrictions for untrusted applications, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read and modify local files via an untrusted application, aka "two…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.29%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier does not properly enforce access restrictions for untrusted applications, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read and modify local files via an untrusted application, aka "two vulnerabilities."
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.1 HIGHAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N
- EPSS
- 3.29% probability · 88th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- sun/jdk · sun/jre
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/272
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01234533
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27261
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27693
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29042
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29858
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30676
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30780
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103073-1Patch
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_55_java.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25920
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018770
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0010.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3895
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0609
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1856/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36946
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5899
- http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/272
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01234533
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27261
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27693
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29042
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29858
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30676
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30780
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.