CVE-2007-3504: Sun JDK

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the PersistenceService in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 11 and earlier, and Java Web Start in SDK and JRE 1.4.2_13 and earlier, for Windows allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions via an application that grants file overwrite privileges to itself. NOTE: this can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code by overwriting a .java.policy file.

Affected products

• Sun JDK: up to and including 1.5.0
• Sun JRE: up to and including 1.4.2; up to and including 1.5.0
• Sun SDK: up to and including 1.4.2_13

Published 2007-06-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.