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CVE-2013-2424

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-04-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier, 6 Update 43 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 41 and earlier; and OpenJDK 6 and 7; allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via vectors related to JMX. NOTE: the previous information is from the April 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from another vendor that this issue is related to "insufficient class access checks" when "creating new instances" using MBeanInstantiator.

Affected products

• Oracle Java SE: through 1.6.0; through 1.7.0; through 1.5.0; 1.6.0-update22, 1.6.0-update23, 1.6.0-update24, 1.6.0-update25, 1.6.0-update26, 1.6.0-update27 (+27)
• Oracle Java SE: through 1.5.0; through 1.7.0; through 1.6.0; 1.5.0-update36, 1.5.0-update38, 1.5.0-update40, 1.7.0, 1.7.0-update1, 1.7.0-update10 (+27)
• 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 (+49)
• Sun Jre: 1.5.0, 1.5.0-update1, 1.5.0-update10, 1.5.0-update11, 1.5.0-update12, 1.5.0-update13 (+47)

References

• http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/22/security-icedtea-2-3-9-for-openjdk-7-released/
• http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/25/security-icedtea-1-11-11-1-12-5-for-openjdk-6-released/
• http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03898880
• http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/da1867780fc9
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Apr/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00007.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00013.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00017.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00099.html
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-April/022796.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=137283787217316&w=2

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