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CVE-2020-2659

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (component: Networking). Supported versions tha

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (component: Networking). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u241 and 8u231.

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 ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Java SE, Java SE Embedded. 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 3.7 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

LOW · CVSS 3.7 EPSS 0.00293
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Scoring & Timeline

3.7
LOW · CVSS v3.1 · secalert_us@oracle.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD15 Jan 2020 · 05:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
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Vendor Advisories

23
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10876-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2020:0456-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2020:0528-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2020:0628-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2020:0466-1
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References & Sources

8
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/22Issue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4257-1/Third Party Advisory
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