Vulnerability in Sun Jdk

CVE-2007-3698

The Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 1 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Updates 7 through 11, and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_11 through 1.4.2_14, when using JSSE for SSL/TLS support, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via certain SSL/TLS handshake requests.

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.038 (89.7th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2007-3698: held from 0.038 to 0.038.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.038 · newest: 0.038 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Sun Jdk — versions 1.5.0, 1.6.0
  • Sun Jre — versions 1.4.2_11, 1.4.2_12, 1.4.2_13
  • Sun Sdk — versions 1.4.2_11, 1.4.2_12, 1.4.2_13

References