CVE-2015-4871

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-4871 is an unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 7u85, impacting both Oracle JDK and JRE. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.8) allows remote attackers to compromise confidentiality and integrity through unknown vectors related to Libraries. While it has a low EPSS score and no known exploit intelligence, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.7.0:update85::::::
		1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:1.7.0:update_85::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

4.9

CvssVersion

2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

3.04%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

86.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-24

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0304 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 19,953 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (16)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.91-1jpp.1.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.91-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.91-1jpp.1.el7_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.95-2.6.4.1.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.9.20-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.95-2.6.4.0.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.20-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.95-2.6.4.0.el7_2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.20-1jpp.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.2.0-1jpp.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.9.40-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.40-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: spacewalk-java-0:2.0.2-109.el6sat

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.40-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: spacewalk-java-0:2.3.8-146.el6sat

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-4871Moderate

OpenJDK: protected methods can be used as interface methods via DirectMethodHandle (Libraries)

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00000.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00001.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00003.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00004.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00006.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00014.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00005.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00042.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00043.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00044.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00047.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00048.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1927.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-2506.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-2507.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-2509.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0053.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0054.html

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016:1430

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201603-11

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201603-14

debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3381

debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3401

oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html

PatchVendor Advisory

oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

securityfocus.com / bid/77238

securitytracker.com / id/1033884

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2818-1