CVE-2007-4381 EXPLOIT
9.3
HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 5.4% (pctl 92)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the font parsing implementation in Sun JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 9 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_14 and earlier, allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions via an applet that grants certain privileges to itself.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.3 (HIGH, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
| EPSS | 5.42% — more likely to be exploited than 92% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2007-08-17 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (3)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| sun | jdk |
| sun | jre |
| sun | sdk |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Sun Java Runtime Environment 1.4.2 - Font Parsing Privilege Escalation | 2007-08-15 |
References
- http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/248
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26402
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26631
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26933
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27203
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27716
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28056
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28115
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28777
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28880
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29340
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29897
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103024-1
- http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/0c36b6416afc3868b8b1b9012955e323.html
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200709-15.xml
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0956.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1086.html
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