CVE-2007-5689: Sun JDK

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in SDK and JRE 1.3.x through 1.3.1_20 and 1.4.x through 1.4.2_15, and JDK and JRE 5.x through 5.0 Update 12 and 6.x through 6 Update 2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs, or read or modify arbitrary files, via applets that grant privileges to themselves.

Affected products

• Sun JDK: up to and including 1.6.0; version 1.5.0 only; version 1.6.0 only
• Sun JRE: up to and including 1.3.1; up to and including 1.4.2; up to and including 1.5.0; version 1.3.0 only; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.4 only; …
• Sun SDK: up to and including 1.4.2_15; 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; …

Published 2007-10-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.