CVE-2013-2423
Oracle JRE Unspecified Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 15 June 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 3.7 LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 85.22% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 23 April 2013
- CISA KEV
- Listed 25 May 2022 · due 15 June 2022
- Weakness
- CWE-284
- Affected
- oracle/jre · canonical/ubuntu linux · opensuse/opensuse
- Source
- secalert_us@oracle.com
EPSS 85.2% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2423
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- 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.htmlNot Applicable
- http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/b453d9be6b3fPatch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00099.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0752.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0757.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xmlThird Party Advisory
- http://weblog.ikvm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=acd2dd6d-1028-4996-95df-efa42ac237f0Broken Link
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24976Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:161Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1806-1Third Party Advisory
- http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-107AThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952398Issue Tracking
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16700Broken Link
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0130Third Party Advisory
- 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.htmlNot Applicable
- http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/b453d9be6b3fPatch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00099.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0752.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0757.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xmlThird Party Advisory
- http://weblog.ikvm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=acd2dd6d-1028-4996-95df-efa42ac237f0Broken Link
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24976Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:161Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1806-1Third Party Advisory
- http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-107AThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952398Issue Tracking
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.