CVE-2007-3504

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-06-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the PersistenceService in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 11 and earlier, and Java Web Start in SDK and JRE 1.4.2_13 and earlier, for Windows allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions via an application that grants file overwrite privileges to itself. NOTE: this can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code by overwriting a .java.policy file.

Affected products

Sun Jdk: through 1.5.0
Sun Jre: through 1.4.2; through 1.5.0
Sun Sdk: through 1.4.2_13

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html
http://osvdb.org/37755
http://secunia.com/advisories/25823
http://secunia.com/advisories/28115
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102957-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472673/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24695
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018328
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2384
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4224
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35169

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