MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2014-0423

Jrockit vulnerability

CVSS
5.5
EPSS
3.6%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
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 vendor
Oracle
Affected product
Jrockit
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P
Published
2014-01-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-0423

  • Confirm whether Oracle Jrockit is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-0423.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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