CVE-2007-5239

Untrusted Application or Applet May Move or Copy Arbitrary Files

Published Oct 6, 2007 CVSS 2.0 · 4.0 Medium EPSS 2.5% KEV · Not listed
Description
Java Web Start 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 does not properly enforce access restrictions for untrusted (1) applications and (2) applets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to copy or rename arbitrary files when local users perform drag-and-drop operations from the untrusted application or applet window onto certain types of desktop applications.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-5219 Java Web Start 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 does not properly enforce access restrictions for untrusted (1) applications and (2) applets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to copy or rename arbitrary files when local users perform drag-and-drop operations from the untrusted application or applet window onto certain types of desktop applications.
References
Link Providers
http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/272 cve-icon cve-icon
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01234533 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27206 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27261 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27693 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27716 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27804 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28777 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28880 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29042 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29214 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29340 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29858 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29897 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30676 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30780 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018814 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103072-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/0c36b6416afc3868b8b1b9012955e323.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_55_java.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0963.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1041.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0100.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0132.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0156.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482926/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0010.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3895 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0609 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1856/references cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36950 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5239 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8758 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5239 cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 3:24 PM
Reserved
Oct 5, 2007, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 6, 2007, 12:17 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:45 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Oct 3, 2007, 12:00 AM