CVE-2013-2421

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-2421
StatePUBLISHED
Assigneroracle
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-04-17 18:55:07 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionUnspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier, and OpenJDK 6 and 7, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to HotSpot. 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 incorrect MethodHandle lookups, which allows remote attackers to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 9.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 All All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 update1 All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 update10 All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 update11 All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 update13 All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 update15 All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 update2 All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 update3 All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 update4 All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 update5 All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 update6 All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 update7 All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 update9 All All
Application Oracle Jdk All update17 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 All All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 update1 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 update10 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 update11 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 update13 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 update15 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 update2 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 update3 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 update4 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 update5 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 update6 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 update7 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 update9 All All
Application Oracle Jre All update17 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GNU/Andrew’s Blog » [SECURITY] IcedTea 2.3.9 for OpenJDK 7 Released! af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blog.fuseyism.com
Bug 952649 – CVE-2013-2421 OpenJDK: Hotspot MethodHandle lookup error (Hotspot, 8009699) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:0814-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
openSUSE-SU-2013:0777-1: moderate: java-1_6_0-openjdk to Icedtea6-1.12.5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0130 - Mageia wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.mageia.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:161 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
GNU/Andrew’s Blog » [SECURITY] IcedTea 1.11.11 & 1.12.5 for OpenJDK 6 Released! af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blog.fuseyism.com
Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update - April 2013 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] IcedTea 1.11.10 for OpenJDK 6 Released! af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mail.openjdk.java.net
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Oracle Has Released Multiple Updates for Java SE | US-CERT af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- IcedTea JDK: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
USN-1806-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/hotspot: 663b5c744e82 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 hg.openjdk.java.net
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:145 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0124 - Mageia wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.mageia.org
openSUSE-SU-2013:0964-1: moderate: update for java-1_7_0-openjdk af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
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