CVEs / CVE-2013-2423
CVE-2013-2423: Oracle JRE Unspecified Vulnerability
- Known exploited in the CISA KEV catalog since 25 May 2022
- medium 4.3 CVSS 2.0 (NVD)
- EPSS 85.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of CVEs (30 Oct 2026)
- Last changed at its sources
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Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in hotspot for Java Runtime Environment (JRE) allows remote attackers to affect integrity.
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier, and OpenJDK 7, allows remote attackers to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to HotSpot. NOTE: the previous information is from the April 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from the original researcher that this vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass permission checks by the MethodHandles method and modify arbitrary public final fields using reflection and type confusion, as demonstrated using integer and double fields to disable the security manager.
Affected and fixed versions
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| n/a n/a | n/a | — |
Exploitation
| In CISA KEV since | 25 May 2022 |
|---|---|
| Due date for US federal agencies | 15 Jun 2022 |
| Used in ransomware campaigns | Unknown |
| Required action | Apply updates per vendor instructions. |
Severity
| CVSS 2.0 | 4.3 mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:NScored by NVD |
|---|---|
| Weakness | CWE-284 |
References
- CVE-2013-2423 on NVD
- CVE-2013-2423 in the CISA KEV catalog
- http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/22/security-icedtea-2-3-9-for-openjdk-7-released/ Broken Link
- http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/04/java-is-so-confusing.html Not Applicable
- http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/b453d9be6b3f Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00099.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0752.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0757.html Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://weblog.ikvm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=acd2dd6d-1028-4996-95df-efa42ac237f0 Broken Link
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24976 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:161 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1806-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-107A Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952398 Issue Tracking
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16700 Broken Link
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0130 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2013-2423 US Government Resource
Sources
Exploitation status from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EPSS scores from FIRST. Descriptions, severity and references from the National Vulnerability Database. Open-source package versions from OSV (CC-BY 4.0). Text is shown as each source states it; Stackurity does not edit it. Check the vendor's advisory before acting.
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