CVE-2007-5236

Severity

54%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

115%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 17 years ago

2007-10-06 00:17:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:26:00

Affected Software

Sun JDK 5.0 Update1

1.5.0

Sun JDK 5.0 Update10

1.5.0

Sun JDK 5.0 Update11

1.5.0

Sun JDK 5.0 Update12

1.5.0

Sun JDK 5.0 Update2

1.5.0

Sun JDK 5.0 Update3

1.5.0

Sun JDK 5.0 Update4

1.5.0

Sun JDK 5.0 Update5

1.5.0

Sun JDK 5.0 Update7

1.5.0

Sun JDK 5.0 Update8

1.5.0

Sun JDK 5.0 Update9

1.5.0

Sun JRE 1.4.2

1.4.2

Sun JRE 1.4.2_1

1.4.2_1

Sun JRE 1.4.2_2

1.4.2_2

Sun JRE 1.4.2_3

1.4.2_3

Sun JRE 1.4.2_4

1.4.2_4

Sun JRE 1.4.2_5

1.4.2_5

Sun JRE 1.4.2_6

1.4.2_6

Sun JRE 1.4.2_7

1.4.2_7

Sun JRE 1.4.2_8

1.4.2_8

Sun JRE 1.4.2_9

1.4.2_9

Sun JRE 1.4.2_10

1.4.2_10

Sun JRE 1.4.2_11

1.4.2_11

Sun JRE 1.4.2_12

1.4.2_12

Sun JRE 1.4.2_13

1.4.2_13

Sun JRE 1.4.2_14

1.4.2_14

Sun JRE 1.4.2_15

1.4.2_15

Sun JRE 1.4.2_21

1.4.2_21

Sun JRE 1.5.0_1 (JRE 5.0 Update 1)

1.5.0

Sun JRE 1.5.0_10 (JRE 5.0 Update 10)

1.5.0

Sun JRE 1.5.0_11 (JRE 5.0 Update 11)

1.5.0

Sun JRE 1.5.0_12 (JRE 5.0 Update 12)

1.5.0

Sun JRE 1.5.0_2 (JRE 5.0 Update 2)

1.5.0

Sun JRE 1.5.0_3 (JRE 5.0 Update 3)

1.5.0

Sun JRE 1.5.0_4 (JRE 5.0 Update 4)

1.5.0

Sun JRE 1.5.0_5 (JRE 5.0 Update 5)

1.5.0

Sun JRE 1.5.0_6 (JRE 5.0 Update 6)

1.5.0

Sun JRE 1.5.0_7 (JRE 5.0 Update 7)

1.5.0

Sun JRE 1.5.0_8 (JRE 5.0 Update 8)

1.5.0

Sun JRE 1.5.0_9 (JRE 5.0 Update 9)

1.5.0

SDK 1.4.2_03

1.4.2_03

Sun SDK 1.4.2_08

1.4.2_08

Sun SDK 1.4.2_09

1.4.2_09

Sun SDK 1.4.2_10

1.4.2_10

Sun SDK 1.4.2_11

1.4.2_11

Sun SDK 1.4.2_12

1.4.2_12

Sun SDK 1.4.2_13

1.4.2_13

Sun SDK 1.4.2_14

1.4.2_14

Sun SDK 1.4.2_15

1.4.2_15

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