CVE-2013-2423

Known Exploited Public Exploit

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.

Category

3.7
CVSS
Severity: Low
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 93.71% Top 5%
KEV Since 
Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory oracle.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml third party advisory vendor advisory
http://weblog.ikvm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=acd2dd6d-1028-4996-95df-efa42ac237f0 broken link
http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-107A third party advisory us government resource
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0130 third party advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0757.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/b453d9be6b3f patch
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24976 exploit vdb entry third party advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:161 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00099.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0752.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1806-1 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/04/java-is-so-confusing.html not applicable
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952398 issue tracking
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16700 vdb entry signature broken link
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.html vendor advisory
http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/22/security-icedtea-2-3-9-for-openjdk-7-released/ broken link

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2013-2423?
CVE-2013-2423 has been scored as a low severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2013-2423?
To fix CVE-2013-2423, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2013-2423 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is confirmed that CVE-2013-2423 is actively exploited. Be extra cautious if you are using vulnerable components. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~94% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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