CVE-2007-3698

Summary

CVECVE-2007-3698
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-07-11 22:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 1 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Updates 7 through 11, and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_11 through 1.4.2_14, when using JSSE for SSL/TLS support, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via certain SSL/TLS handshake requests.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sun Jdk 1.5.0 update10 All All
Application Sun Jdk 1.5.0 update11 All All
Application Sun Jdk 1.5.0 update7 All All
Application Sun Jdk 1.5.0 update8 All All
Application Sun Jdk 1.5.0 update9 All All
Application Sun Jdk 1.6.0 update1 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_11 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_12 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_13 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_14 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update10 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update11 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update7 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update8 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.5.0 update9 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.6.0 update_1 All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_11 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_12 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_13 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_14 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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