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CVE-2007-4381

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-08-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the font parsing implementation in Sun JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 9 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_14 and earlier, allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions via an applet that grants certain privileges to itself.

Affected products

• Sun Jdk: through 1.5.0
• Sun Jre: through 1.4.2
• Sun Sdk: through 1.4.2_14

References

• http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/248
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26402
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26631
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26933
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27203
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27716
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28056
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28115
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28777

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