CVE-2015-2590

79

FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2590 is an unspecified critical vulnerability in Oracle Java SE (versions 6u95, 7u80, 8u45) and Java SE Embedded (versions 7u75, 8u33), impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability through unknown vectors related to Libraries. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction, and resulting in complete compromise of the system. It has been actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community attention and media coverage, despite the lack of publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.6.0:update95::::::
		1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.7.0:update75::::::
		1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.7.0:update80::::::
		1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.8.0:update33::::::
		1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.8.0:update45::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

5.9

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

25.47%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

97.7%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-25

Model: v2026.06.15

Added to KEV · Mar 3, 2022

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2547 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (26)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.101-1jpp.1.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.8.0-oracle-1:1.8.0.51-1jpp.2.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.85-1jpp.2.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.101-1jpp.1.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.8.0-oracle-1:1.8.0.51-1jpp.2.el7_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.85-1jpp.2.el7_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.101-1jpp.1.el7_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.85-2.6.1.3.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.36-1.13.8.1.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.7-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.9.10-1jpp.2.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.16.13-1jpp.3.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.85-1jpp.1.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.85-2.6.1.3.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.36-1.13.8.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.10-1jpp.3.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.7-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.16.13-1jpp.3.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.51-1.b16.el7_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.85-2.6.1.2.ael7b_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.36-1.13.8.1.el7_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.7-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.7-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.10-1jpp.1.ael7b_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.51-0.b16.el6_6

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-2590Critical

OpenJDK: deserialization issue in ObjectInputStream.readSerialData() (Libraries, 8076401)

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

US Government Resource

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00039.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00040.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00046.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00047.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1228.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1229.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1230.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1241.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1242.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1243.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1485.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1486.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1488.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1526.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1544.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1604.html

Third Party Advisory

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201603-11

Third Party Advisory

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201603-14

Third Party Advisory

debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3316

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3339

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html

PatchVendor Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/75818

Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

securitytracker.com / id/1032910

Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2696-1

Third Party Advisory

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2706-1

Third Party Advisory