CVE-2007-5238

no score yetEPSS 2.7%

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."

EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-264
Published: 2007-10-06
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

sun:jdk
sun:jre
sun:sdk

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

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