Vulnerability in Sun Jdk

CVE-2007-5239

Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_20 and earlier does not properly enforce access restrictions for untrusted (1) applications and (2) applets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to copy or rename arbitrary files when local users perform drag-and-drop operations from the untrusted application or applet window onto certain types of desktop applications.

EPSS: 0.025 (83.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Sun Jdk — versions 1.5.0, 1.6.0
Sun Jre — versions 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.4
Sun Sdk — versions 1.3.1_01, 1.3.1_01a, 1.3.1_16
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_SUNALERT)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)