CVE-2014-0423: Oracle JDK

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Oracle JDK: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.5.0 only
• Oracle JRE: version 1.7.0 only; version 1.6.0 only; version 1.5.0 only
• Oracle JRockit: version r27.7.7 only; version r28.2.9 only

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