CVE-2007-5238 (GCVE-0-2007-5238)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-10-06 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:24
VLAI
Summary
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."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2286 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-10… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3895 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/30676 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/29042 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/27693 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/0c36b64… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/29897 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/27206 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/27804 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
http://secunia.com/advisories/29858 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-09… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25920 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/28880 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/27716 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1856… vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018770 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20080… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20080… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2007-10-03 00:00
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