CVE-2013-0434

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 through Update 11, 6 through Update 38, 5.0 through Update 38, and 1.4.2_40 and earlier, and OpenJDK 6 and 7, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via vectors related to JAXP. NOTE: the previous information is from the February 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from another vendor that this issue is related to the public declaration of the loadPropertyFile method in the JAXP FuncSystemProperty class, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Affected products

Oracle Java SE: through 1.4.2_40; 1.7.0, 1.7.0-update1, 1.7.0-update10, 1.7.0-update11, 1.7.0-update2, 1.7.0-update3 (+23)
Oracle Java SE: through 1.4.2_40; 1.7.0, 1.7.0-update1, 1.7.0-update10, 1.7.0-update11, 1.7.0-update2, 1.7.0-update3 (+23)
Sun Jdk: 1.6.0, 1.6.0-update_10, 1.6.0-update_11, 1.6.0-update_12, 1.6.0-update_13, 1.6.0-update_14 (+84)
Sun Jre: 1.6.0, 1.6.0-update_1, 1.6.0-update_10, 1.6.0-update_11, 1.6.0-update_12, 1.6.0-update_13 (+85)

References

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