CVE-2013-2423
LOWCISA KEVEPSS 100th pctlDescription
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 v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.
Oracle JRE Unspecified Vulnerability
Unspecified vulnerability in hotspot for Java Runtime Environment (JRE) allows remote attackers to affect integrity.
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Remediation due: 2022-06-15
References
- http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/22/security-icedtea-2-3-9-for-openjdk-7-released/
- http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/04/java-is-so-confusing.html
- http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/b453d9be6b3f
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00099.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0752.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0757.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
- http://weblog.ikvm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=acd2dd6d-1028-4996-95df-efa42ac237f0
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24976
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:161
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1806-1
- http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-107A
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952398
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16700
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0130
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2013-2423
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