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CVE-2014-0423

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% 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; JRockit R27.7.7 and R28.2.9; Java SE Embedded 7u45; and OpenJDK 7 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality and availability via unknown vectors related to Beans. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2014 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that this issue is an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in DocumentHandler.java, related to Beans decoding.

Affected products

• Oracle Java SE: 1.6.0-update65, 1.5.0-update55
• Oracle Java SE: 1.7.0-update45, 1.6.0-update65, 1.5.0-update55
• Oracle JRockit: r27.7.7, r28.2.9

References

• http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/rev/995b32f013f5
• 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://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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