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Vulnerability · Published Jan 15, 2020 · Assigned by oracle

CVE-2020-2593

Medium 4.8

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 3.0% (higher than 87% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.0)4.8Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)3.0%top 12.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (component: Networking). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u241, 8u231, 11.0.5 and 13.0.1; Java SE Embedded: 8u231. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Java SE Embedded. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Java SE, Java SE Embedded accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Java SE, Java SE Embedded accessible data. Note: This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets (in Java SE 8), that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability can also be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.8 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N).

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20openjdk1111.0.6_p10-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-2593
Alpine:v3.21openjdk1111.0.6_p10-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-2593
Alpine:v3.22openjdk1111.0.6_p10-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-2593
Alpine:v3.23openjdk1111.0.6_p10-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-2593
Alpine:v3.24openjdk1111.0.6_p10-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-2593
Alpine:v3.20openjdk88.242.08-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-2593
Alpine:v3.21openjdk88.242.08-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-2593
Alpine:v3.22openjdk88.242.08-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-2593
Alpine:v3.23openjdk88.242.08-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-2593
Alpine:v3.24openjdk88.242.08-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-2593
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSicedtea-webno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-2593
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSicedtea-webno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-2593
Ubuntu:25.10icedtea-webno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-2593
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSicedtea-webno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-2593
Ubuntu:26.10icedtea-webno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-2593

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Oracle Corporation Java Java SE: 7u241, 8u231, 11.0.5, 13.0.1Java SE Embedded: 8u231

References