CVE-2013-2461: Oracle JDK

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 21 and earlier and 6 Update 45 and earlier; the Oracle JRockit component in Oracle Fusion Middleware R27.7.5 and earlier and R28.2.7 and earlier; and OpenJDK 7 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Libraries. NOTE: the previous information is from the June and July 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from another vendor that this issue allows remote attackers to bypass verification of XML signatures via vectors related to a "Missing check for [a] valid DOMCanonicalizationMethod canonicalization algorithm."

Affected products

• Oracle JDK: version 1.6.0 only
• Oracle JRE: version 1.7.0 only
• Oracle JRockit: from r27.7.1, up to and including r27.7.5; from r28.0.0, up to and including r28.2.7
• Oracle Openjdk: version 1.7.0 only
• Sun JDK: version 1.6.0 only

Published 2013-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.