VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-2456

medium
Published 2013-06-18 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 21 and earlier, 6 Update 45 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 45 and earlier, and OpenJDK 7, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Serialization. NOTE: the previous information is from the June 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from another vendor that this issue is related to improper access checks for subclasses in the ObjectOutputStream class.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
oracle oraclejre{"endIncluding":"1.7.0"}
oracle oraclejre1.7.0
oracle oraclejdk{"endIncluding":"1.7.0"}
oracle oraclejdk1.7.0
oracle oraclejre1.6.0
sunjre1.6.0
oracle oraclejdk1.6.0
sunjdk1.6.0
oracle oraclejre1.5.0
sunjre1.5.0
oracle oraclejdk1.5.0
sunjdk1.5.0

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.