CVE-2014-8873: Oracle Openjdk

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A .desktop file in the Debian openjdk-7 package 7u79-2.5.5-1~deb8u1 includes a MIME type registration that is added to /etc/mailcap by mime-support, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JAR file.

Affected products

• Oracle Openjdk: version 1.7.0 only

Published 2015-11-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.