CVE-2014-0416: Oracle JDK

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 5.0u55, 6u65, and 7u45; Java SE Embedded 7u45; and OpenJDK 7 allows remote attackers to affect integrity via vectors related to JAAS. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2014 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that the issue is related to how principals are set for the Subject class, which allows attackers to escape the sandbox using deserialization of a crafted Subject instance.

Affected products

  • Oracle JDK: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.5.0 only
  • Oracle JRE: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.7.0 only; version 1.5.0 only

Published 2014-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.