CVE-2013-2423
Low 3.7 Exploited in the wild (KEV)
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- Oracle JRE Unspecified Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
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.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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3.7 (LOW)
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 85% (percentile: 100) as of 1 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-284
Affected products
oracle: jre; canonical: ubuntu linux; opensuse: opensuse
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.html Vendor Advisory
- http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/b453d9be6b3f Patch
- http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/b453d9be6b3f Patch
- http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/22/security-icedtea-2-3-9-for-openjd… Broken Link
- http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/04/java-is-so-confusing.html Not Applicable
- 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