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CVE-2013-5838

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 7u25 and earlier, and Java SE Embedded 7u25 and earlier, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Libraries.

CVSS 9.3 · CriticalBuzz score 32.5

Buzz score

Why this CVE is surfacing

Buzz score total 32.5

This all-time snapshot uses the same composite formula as Trending across a 30-year evidence window, rather than a current rolling window.

Buzz score components · mention 23.0 · diversity 9.5 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Mention score
23.0
9 evidence mentions in the snapshot
Diversity score
9.5
4 sources across 1 categories
KEV score
0.0
No KEV entry observed
OTX score
0.0
0 OTX pulses
PoC score
0.0
0 repos · best confidence N/A
Best PoC traction
0
Maximum stars on a matched PoC repo

Why it matters now

Mention timeline

Total mentions
0
within the 30d window
Peak daily
0
highest bucket

Evidence

Source links by recency

Newest mentions first
9 source links · newest first
  • Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Oracle Addresses 276 Security Flaws, 19 Critical in Critical Patch Update (CPU) For July 2016 Oracle on Tuesday released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for July 2016 to address a total of 276 vulnerabilities across multiple products, including 19 critical security flaws that have a CVSS score of 9.8. This month’s Oracle CPU contains a record number of fixes, after the January 2016 set of patches established another one, at 248 security fixes. More worrying than the sheer number of addressed vulnerabilities is that 159 can be exploited remotely without authentication. Overall, the July CPU addresses 36 security issues in applications designed specifically for the Retail, Insurance, Health, Financial, and Utility industries. However, with 4 remotely exploitable vulnerabilities without authentication in sector-specific products, the Retail industry appears to have been affected the most. A total of 121 vulnerabilities were addressed in cruc…

    newswww.securityweek.comJul 20, 2016, 11:42 AM
  • Oracle’s Critical Patch Update (CPU) for April 2016 was released on Tuesday, bringing 136 security fixes across multiple product families. Many of the vulnerabilities addressed in the update are remotely exploitable, with seven carrying a rating of a 10.0 using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).

    newswww.securityweek.comApr 20, 2016, 2:06 AM
  • A patch released by IBM in 2013 for a Java sandbox escape vulnerability can be easily bypassed, according to the security firm that discovered and reported the issue.

    newswww.securityweek.comApr 5, 2016, 11:21 AM
  • Oracle announced on Wednesday that it has released an update for Java SE to address a serious vulnerability.

    newswww.securityweek.comMar 24, 2016, 12:50 PM
  • A Week in Security (Mar 13 – Mar 19)Malwarebytes Labs

    Last week, we touched on a 419 scam, modding on games (in general), a much talked about iCloud scam that “may…

    newswww.malwarebytes.comMar 20, 2016, 5:00 PM
  • A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs A new massive spam campaign is spreading Locky ransomware downloaders Security Affairs newsletter Round 51 – News of the week CISCO warns customers of high-severity flaws in modems and gateways Reuters – Malware suspected in the Bangladesh […]

    newssecurityaffairs.comMar 20, 2016, 2:32 PM
  • The patch for the critical Java CVE-2013-5838 vulnerability released by Oracle in 2013 is ineffective and can be easily bypassed. Bad news for Java users, in 2013 Oracle released a patch to fix the CVE-2013-5838 vulnerability, but security experts discovered that it could be easily bypassed to compromise the latest versions of the software. This means […]

    newssecurityaffairs.comMar 14, 2016, 7:48 AM
  • A patch for a critical Java flaw released by Oracle in 2013 is ineffective and can be easily bypassed, security researchers warn. This makes the vulnerability exploitable again, paving the way for attacks against PCs and servers running the latest versions of Java. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2013-5838 in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database, […]

    newswww.csoonline.comMar 11, 2016, 6:22 PM
  • Researchers discovered that a patch released more than two years ago by Oracle for a serious Java sandbox escape vulnerability can be easily bypassed.

    newswww.securityweek.comMar 11, 2016, 4:48 PM

Exploit code

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