CVE-2020-2604

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
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: 2020-01-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-502

Description

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (component: Serialization). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u241, 8u231, 11.0.5 and 13.0.1; Java SE Embedded: 8u231. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Java SE Embedded. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Java SE, Java SE Embedded. Note: This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets (in Java SE 8), that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability can also be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.10
Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
McAfee,LLC McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO): 5.9.0, 5.9.1, 5.10.0, 5.10.0-update_1, 5.10.0-update_2, 5.10.0-update_3 (+3)
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: from 7.3; from 9.5
NetApp E-Series Performance Analyzer: all versions
NetApp E-Series Santricity Management Plug-Ins: all versions
E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x: from 11.0.0 through 11.60.1
NetApp E-Series Santricity Storage Manager: all versions
NetApp E-Series Santricity Web Services Proxy: all versions
OnCommand Insight: all versions
NetApp OnCommand Workflow Automation: all versions
NetApp Santricity Unified Manager: all versions
NetApp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: all versions
openSUSE Leap: 15.1
Oracle Commerce Experience Manager: 11.3.2
Oracle Corporation Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager: 11.3.2
Oracle Corporation GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 19.3.0.2
Oracle Java SE: 1.7.0-update241, 1.8.0-update231, 11.0.5, 13.0.1
Oracle Java SE: 1.8.0-update231
containers/openjdk: from 11 through 11.0.5; from 13 through 13.0.1; 7, 7-update241, 7-update80, 7-update85, 8, 8-update102 (+15)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 7.7, 8.1
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.7
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.7
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0

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