CVE-2013-4002

Summary

CVECVE-2013-4002
StatePUBLISHED
Assigneribm
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-07-23 11:03:19 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionXMLscanner.java in Apache Xerces2 Java Parser before 2.12.0, as used in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in IBM Java 5.0 before 5.0 SR16-FP3, 6 before 6 SR14, 6.0.1 before 6.0.1 SR6, and 7 before 7 SR5 as well as Oracle Java SE 7u40 and earlier, Java SE 6u60 and earlier, Java SE 5.0u51 and earlier, JRockit R28.2.8 and earlier, JRockit R27.7.6 and earlier, Java SE Embedded 7u40 and earlier, and possibly other products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to XML attribute names.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.1 from [email protected]

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

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Ibm Aix - All All All
Application Ibm Host On-demand 11.0 All All All
Application Ibm Host On-demand 11.0.1 All All All
Application Ibm Host On-demand 11.0.2 All All All
Application Ibm Host On-demand 11.0.3 All All All
Application Ibm Host On-demand 11.0.4 All All All
Application Ibm Host On-demand 11.0.5 All All All
Application Ibm Host On-demand 11.0.5.1 All All All
Application Ibm Host On-demand 11.0.6 All All All
Application Ibm Host On-demand 11.0.6.1 All All All
Application Ibm Host On-demand 11.0.7 All All All
Application Ibm Host On-demand 11.0.8 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.0.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.11.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.11.1 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.11.2 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.12.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.12.1 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.12.2 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.12.3 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.12.4 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.12.5 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.13.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.14.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.15.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.16.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.16.1 All All All
Application Ibm Java 5.0.16.2 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.0.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.1.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.10.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.10.1 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.11.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.12.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.13.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.13.1 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.13.2 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.2.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.3.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.4.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.5.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.6.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.7.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.8.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.8.1 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.9.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.9.1 All All All
Application Ibm Java 6.0.9.2 All All All
Application Ibm Java 7.0.0.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 7.0.1.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 7.0.2.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 7.0.3.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 7.0.4.0 All All All
Application Ibm Java 7.0.4.1 All All All
Application Ibm Java 7.0.4.2 All All All
Application Ibm Sterling B2b Integrator 5.2.4 All All All
Application Ibm Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 7.2.2 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.5.0 update51 All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.6.0 update60 All All
Application Oracle Jdk 1.7.0 update40 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.5.0 update51 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.6.0 update60 All All
Application Oracle Jre 1.7.0 update40 All All
Application Oracle Jrockit All All All All
Application Oracle Jrockit All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

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