CVE-2014-2423

29

FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-2423 is an unspecified vulnerability within Oracle Java SE (versions 6u71, 7u51, 8) and Java SE Embedded (7u51), specifically impacting the JAX-WS component. This flaw allows remote attackers to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, enabling full compromise of all three security pillars. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		10.04CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04::::-:::
		12.04CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04::::-:::
		12.10CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10:::::::*
		13.10CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10:::::::*
		14.04CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::esm:::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.4

CvssVersion

2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

4.98%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

91.3%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-28

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0498 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (21)

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 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 7Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0

oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-2423Important

OpenJDK: incorrect caching of data initialized via TCCL (JAXWS, 8026188)

References

Issue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory

Issue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0675.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0685.html

Third Party Advisory

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014:0413

Third Party Advisory

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014:0414

Third Party Advisory

secunia.com / advisories/58415

Third Party Advisory

security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml

Third Party Advisory

security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201502-12.xml

Third Party Advisory

www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss

Third Party Advisory

debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2912

Third Party Advisory

oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html

Vendor Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/66887

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2187-1

VDB Entry

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2191-1

VDB Entry