VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-1537

critical
Published 2013-04-17 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier, 6 Update 43 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 41 and earlier; and OpenJDK 6 and 7; allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to RMI. NOTE: the previous information is from the April 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from another vendor that this issue is related to the default java.rmi.server.useCodebaseOnly setting of false, which allows remote attackers to perform "dynamic class downloading" and execute arbitrary code.

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

References

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

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