CVE-2007-5240: Sun JDK

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Visual truncation vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_20 and earlier allows remote attackers to circumvent display of the untrusted-code warning banner by creating a window larger than the workstation screen.

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.