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CVE-2007-5238

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, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier does not properly enforce access restrictions for untrusted applications, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (the Java Web Start cache location) via an untrusted application, aka "three vulnerabilities."

Impact

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

Base Score: 2.60 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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

Base Score 2.0
2.60
Severity 2.0
LOW

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:jdk:1.6.0:update1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.6.0:update2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.3.0:update5:*:*:*:*:*:*

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


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