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Vulnerability · Published Jul 15, 2020 · Assigned by oracle

CVE-2020-14562

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Java from Oracle Corporation. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 5.2% (higher than 92% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)5.2%top 7.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Vulnerability in the Java SE product of Oracle Java SE (component: ImageIO). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 11.0.7 and 14.0.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Java SE. Note: This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability does not apply to Java deployments, typically in servers, that load and run only trusted code (e.g., code installed by an administrator). CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.3 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20openjdk1111.0.8_p10-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-14562
Alpine:v3.21openjdk1111.0.8_p10-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-14562
Alpine:v3.22openjdk1111.0.8_p10-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-14562
Alpine:v3.23openjdk1111.0.8_p10-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-14562
Alpine:v3.24openjdk1111.0.8_p10-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-14562

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Oracle Corporation Java Java SE: 11.0.7, 14.0.1

References