Apple Mac OS X Untrusted Java Applet Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Apple Mac OS X Untrusted Java Applet Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Apple Mac OS X is prone to a vulnerability that can allow an untrusted Java applet to gain elevated privileges.

It is conjectured that this could allow the applet to access resources with the privilege level of the user running the applet, potentially allowing the applet to read, write, or execute files on the system that are accessible to the user.

It should be noted that this issue is only specific to Java running on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and prior.