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CVE-2007-5239

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% 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, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_20 and earlier does not properly enforce access restrictions for untrusted (1) applications and (2) applets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to copy or rename arbitrary files when local users perform drag-and-drop operations from the untrusted application or applet window onto certain types of desktop applications.

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 (+7)
• Sun Jre: 1.3.0, 1.3.0-update5, 1.3.1-update1, 1.3.1-update16, 1.3.1-update18, 1.3.1-update19 (+29)
• Sun Sdk: 1.3.1_01, 1.3.1_01a, 1.3.1_16, 1.3.1_18, 1.3.1_19, 1.3.1_20 (+10)

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/27206
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27261
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27693
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27716
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27804
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28777
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28880
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29042
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29214

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