CVE-2007-5237 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-5237 at MITRE

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."

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.1
Vector	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 332137 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2007:055, published Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:12:59 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:05 2025