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CVE-2007-5236

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
06/10/2007
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.40 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
5.40
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update10:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update11:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update12:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update7:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update8:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update9:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.4.2_1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.4.2_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.4.2_3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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