CVE-2007-5237

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 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."

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 7.10 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

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

Base Score 2.0

7.10

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk::update2::::::*		1.6.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre::update1::::::*		1.6.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre::update2::::::*		1.6.0 (including)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2007-5237

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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