CVE-2007-5236: Sun JDK

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier, on Windows does not properly enforce access restrictions for untrusted applications, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read local files via an untrusted application.

Affected products

• Sun JDK: version 1.5.0 only
• Sun JRE: version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.2_1 only; version 1.4.2_2 only; version 1.4.2_3 only; version 1.4.2_4 only; version 1.4.2_5 only; …
• Sun SDK: version 1.4.2_03 only; version 1.4.2_08 only; version 1.4.2_09 only; version 1.4.2_10 only; version 1.4.2_11 only; version 1.4.2_12 only; …

Published 2007-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.