CVE-2003-1156: Sun JDK

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.4.2 through 1.4.2_02 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) unpack.log, as created by the unpack program, or (2) .mailcap1 and .mime.types1, as created by the RPM program.

Affected products

• Sun JDK: version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.2_02 only
• Sun JRE: version 1.4.2 only

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.