CVE-2007-5238: Sun JDK

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

Affected products

• Sun JDK: version 1.5.0 only; version 1.6.0 only
• Sun JRE: version 1.3.0 only; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.4 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.2_1 only; …
• Sun SDK: version 1.3.1_01 only; version 1.3.1_01a only; version 1.3.1_16 only; version 1.3.1_18 only; version 1.3.1_19 only; version 1.3.1_20 only; …

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