CVE-2013-2423
Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier, and OpenJDK 7, allows…
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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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Oracle JRE Unspecified Vulnerability.
- Added
- 25 May 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 15 Jun 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Low3.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Low3.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 85.2% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.7.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (17)
- GLSA-201406-32 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://weblog.ikvm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=acd2dd6d-1028-4996-95df-efa42ac237f0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- TA13-107A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0130 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0757 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/b453d9be6b3f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 24976 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- MDVSA-2013:161 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0964 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0752 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-1806-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/04/java-is-so-confusing.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952398 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16700 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/22/security-icedtea-2-3-9-for-openjdk-7-released/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2013-2423 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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