CVE-2014-1876

14

FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-1876 describes a local file overwrite vulnerability in the unpack200 utility within OpenJDK and Oracle Java SE, affecting versions 6, 7, and 8, among others. The vulnerability stems from insecure temporary file creation when a log file cannot be opened, allowing a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/unpack.log. With a CVSS score of 4.4, this medium-complexity vulnerability could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:openjdk:1.6.0:::::::*
		1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:openjdk:1.7.0:::::::*
		1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:openjdk:1.8.0:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.4MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.4

Impact Score

6.4

CvssVersion

2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.46%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

37.2%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (23)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.55-1jpp.2.el5_10

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.55-2.4.7.1.el5_10

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-5.1.13.3.el5_10

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.55-2.4.7.1.el6_5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-5.1.13.3.el6_5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.55-2.4.7.2.el7_0

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-6.1.13.3.el7_0

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.4Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.55-1jpp.2.el5_10

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el5_10

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5_10

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.16.6-1jpp.1.el5_10

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6_5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.16.6-1jpp.1.el6_5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-1876Low

OpenJDK: insecure temporary file use in unpack200 (Libraries, 8033618)