CVE-2013-2423 vulnerability in Oracle and Other Products
Published on April 17, 2013
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.
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Oracle JRE Unspecified Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Unspecified vulnerability in hotspot for Java Runtime Environment (JRE) allows remote attackers to affect integrity.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by June 15, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
Products Associated with CVE-2013-2423
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What versions are vulnerable to CVE-2013-2423?
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.7.0 update9
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.7.0 update15
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.7.0 update6
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.7.0 update3
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.7.0 update13
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.7.0 update10
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.7.0 update11
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.7.0 update2
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.7.0 update5
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.7.0 update4
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.7.0 update7
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.7.0 update1
- Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.7.0 -
- OpenSuse Version 12.3
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux Version 12.10