CVE-2014-0422

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-01-15 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 5.0u55, 6u65, and 7u45; Java SE Embedded 7u45; and OpenJDK 7 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to JNDI. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2014 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that the issue is related to missing package access checks in the Naming / JNDI component, which allows attackers to escape the sandbox.

Affected products

Oracle Java SE: 1.5.0-update55, 1.6.0-update65
Oracle Java SE: 1.5.0-update55, 1.6.0-update65, 1.7.0-update45

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00105.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00107.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139402697611681&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139402749111889&w=2
http://osvdb.org/101997
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0026.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0027.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0030.html

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