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CVE-2007-5237

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% 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 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."

Affected products

• Sun Jdk: through 1.6.0
• Sun Jre: through 1.6.0

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=1-26-103073-1
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml

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