CVE-2007-3716

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-07-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Java XML Digital Signature implementation in Sun JDK and JRE 6 before Update 2 does not properly process XSLT stylesheets in XSLT transforms in XML signatures, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted stylesheet, a related issue to CVE-2007-3715.

Affected products

Sun Jdk: through 6
Sun Jre: through 6

References

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/248
http://osvdb.org/36664
http://secunia.com/advisories/26031
http://secunia.com/advisories/26631
http://secunia.com/advisories/26933
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102993-1
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200709-15.xml
http://www.isecpartners.com/advisories/2007-04-dsig.txt
http://www.isecpartners.com/files/XMLDSIG_Command_Injection.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473552/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473553/100/0/threaded
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018365

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