CVE-2007-5236

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier, on Windows does not properly enforce access restrictions for untrusted applications, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read local files via an untrusted application.

Affected products

Sun Jdk: 1.5.0-update1, 1.5.0-update10, 1.5.0-update11, 1.5.0-update12, 1.5.0-update2, 1.5.0-update3 (+5)
Sun Jre: 1.4.2, 1.4.2_1, 1.4.2_2, 1.4.2_3, 1.4.2_4, 1.4.2_5 (+23)
Sun Sdk: 1.4.2_03, 1.4.2_08, 1.4.2_09, 1.4.2_10, 1.4.2_11, 1.4.2_12 (+3)

References

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/272
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01234533
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27261
http://secunia.com/advisories/27693
http://secunia.com/advisories/27716
http://secunia.com/advisories/28777
http://secunia.com/advisories/29042
http://secunia.com/advisories/29897
http://secunia.com/advisories/30676
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103073-1
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/0c36b6416afc3868b8b1b9012955e323.html

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