Back

HIGH

java-1.5.0 Privilege escalation via unstrusted applet and application

Published Feb 7, 2008

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 1 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 13 and earlier, allow context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted (1) application or (2) applet, as demonstrated by an application or applet that grants itself privileges to (a) read local files, (b) write to local files, or (c) execute local programs.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (30)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Feb 7, 2008
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Feb 7, 2008
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Feb 5, 2008