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CVE-2013-2423

Oracle JRE Unspecified Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild

This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2022-05-25. Federal due date: 2022-06-15.

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Public exploit code

Working exploit or proof of concept code has been published for this vulnerability. Treat unpatched systems as at risk.

Java Applet - Reflection Type Confusion Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)2013-04-23 · remote · multiple · Verified

Impact

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.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Oracle	Jre	Version 1.7.0
Canonical	Ubuntu Linux	Version 12.10
Opensuse	Opensuse	Version 12.3

Weakness classification

CWE-284

Exploited in the wild

Public exploit code

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Affected products

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