MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2007-5232

Jdk vulnerability

CVSS
4.0
EPSS
3.4%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in 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, when applet caching is enabled, allows remote attackers to violate the security model for an applet's outbound connections via a DNS rebinding attack.
Affected vendor
Sun
Affected product
Jdk
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Published
2007-10-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-5232

  • Confirm whether Sun Jdk is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-5232.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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