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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2007-5689 json

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…

published 2007-10-29 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-5661

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.9%
EPSS 4.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • java-1.5.0-sun RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4
  • java-1.5.0-sun RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-sun-src RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4
  • java-1.5.0-sun-src RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-sun-demo RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4
  • java-1.5.0-sun-demo RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4
  • java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2007:0963

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2007-5689 updated

java-jre: Applet Privilege Escalation

  • Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-demo 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-plugin 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-demo 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-plugin 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-demo 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-plugin 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-demo 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-plugin 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-demo 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-sun-plugin 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-demo 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-jdbc 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-plugin 1.5.0.13-1jpp.1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0963

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Exploit prediction

4.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.