CVE-2007-3698
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 3.8%EU EUVD
The 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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- EPSS score
- 3.8% (90th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-3682)
- Published
- July 11, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-3682 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- sun / jdk
- sun / jdk
- sun / jdk
- sun / jdk
- sun / jdk
- sun / jdk
- sun / jre
- sun / jre
- sun / jre
- sun / jre
- sun / jre
- sun / jre
- sun / jre
- sun / jre
- sun / jre
- sun / jre
- sun / sdk
- sun / sdk
- sun / sdk
- sun / sdk
References
- http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/249
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01269450
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html
- http://osvdb.org/36663
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26015(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26221(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26314(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26631(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26645(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26933(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27203(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27635(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27716(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28056(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28115(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28777(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28880(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29340(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29897(Vendor Advisory)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102997-1(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/0c36b6416afc3868b8b1b9012955e323.html
- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_response09186a008088bd19.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sr-20070725-jsse.shtml(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200709-15.xml
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0818.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0956.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1086.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0100.html(Patch)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0132.html(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24846(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018357
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2495(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2660(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3009(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3861(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4224(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35333
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10634
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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