CVE-2013-2423: Oracle JRE Unspecified Vulnerability

Low severity, CVSS 3.7. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2022-05-25. EPSS: 85.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier, and OpenJDK 7, allows remote attackers to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to HotSpot. NOTE: the previous information is from the April 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from the original researcher that this vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass permission checks by the MethodHandles method and modify arbitrary public final fields using reflection and type confusion, as demonstrated using integer and double fields to disable the security manager.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.10 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.3 only
• Oracle JRE: version 1.7.0 only

Published 2013-04-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.