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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2007-3503 json

The Javadoc tool in Sun JDK 6 and JDK 5.0 Update 11 can generate HTML documentation pages that contain cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabi…

published 2007-06-30 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-3487

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.1%
EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Javadoc tool in Sun JDK 6 and JDK 5.0 Update 11 can generate HTML documentation pages that contain cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • java-1.5.0-bea RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.11-1jpp.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-bea-src RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.11-1jpp.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-bea-demo RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.11-1jpp.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-bea-jdbc RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.11-1jpp.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-bea-missioncontrol RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.11-1jpp.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-ibm RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1:1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4
  • java-1.5.0-ibm RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.5.0.5-1jpp.0.1.el5
  • java-1.5.0-ibm-src RHEL 4 EXTRAS 1:1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4

red hat advisories RHSA-2007:0956RHSA-2007:0829RHSA-2007:0818

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-2007-3503 updated

HTML files generated with Javadoc are vulnerable to a XSS

  • Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.12-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.12-1jpp.2.el4, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.12-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.12-1jpp.2.el4, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.5-1jpp.0.1.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.5-1jpp.0.1.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.5-1jpp.0.1.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.5-1jpp.0.1.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-plugin 1.5.0.5-1jpp.0.1.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-javacomm 1.5.0.5-1jpp.0.1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.12-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.12-1jpp.2.el4, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.5.0-bea 1.5.0.11-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.5-1jpp.0.1.el5, java-1.5.0-bea-src 1.5.0.11-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-bea-demo 1.5.0.11-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-bea-jdbc 1.5.0.11-1jpp.1.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.5-1jpp.0.1.el5, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.12-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.5-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.12-1jpp.2.el4, +5 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0829

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Exploit prediction

3.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

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.