CVE-2013-1493

critical
Published 2013-03-05 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

The color management (CMM) functionality in the 2D component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 15 and earlier, 6 Update 41 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 40 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (crash) via an image with crafted raster parameters, which triggers (1) an out-of-bounds read or (2) memory corruption in the JVM, as exploited in the wild in February 2013.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-24904 remote windows verified
Metasploit ยท 2013-03-29

Java CMM - Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

Java CMM Remote Code Execution
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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
oracle oraclejre{"endIncluding":"1.7.0"}
oracle oraclejre1.7.0
oracle oraclejre1.5.0
sunjre1.5.0
oracle oraclejdk{"endIncluding":"1.6.0"}
oracle oraclejdk1.6.0
sunjdk1.6.0
oracle oraclejre1.6.0
sunjre1.6.0
oracle oraclejdk1.5.0
sunjdk1.5.0
oracle oraclejdk1.7.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.