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CVE-2014-6549

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-6549 is an unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 8u25, impacting both Oracle JDK and JRE. This critical flaw carries a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a severe risk where remote attackers can compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and public exploit code is unavailable, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.8.0:update25:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:1.8.0:update25:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0458 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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

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 (6)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.8.0-oracle-1:1.8.0.31-1jpp.1.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.8.10-1jpp.4.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.31-1.b13.el6_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.2.10-1jpp.3.el6_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.2.10-1jpp.3.el7_0
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-6549Critical

OpenJDK: incorrect class loader permission check in ClassLoader getParent() (Libraries, 8055314)

Jan 20, 2015

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00024.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0080.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201507-14
www-304.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/72137
securitytracker.com / id/1031580