Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 906450
CVE-2013-1490 JDK: complete Java security sandbox bypass (Issue 51)
Last modified: 2014-02-28 08:25:22 EST
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-1490 to the following vulnerability: Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 11 (JRE 1.7.0_11-b21) allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Java security sandbox via unspecified vectors, aka "Issue 51," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0431. NOTE: as of 20130130, this vulnerability does not contain any independently-verifiable details, and there is no vendor acknowledgement. A CVE identifier is being assigned because this vulnerability has received significant public attention, and the original researcher has an established history of releasing vulnerability reports that have been fixed by vendors. NOTE: this issue also exists in SE 6, but it cannot be exploited without a separate vulnerability. References: [1] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/525387/30/0/threaded [2] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/142 [3] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/195 [4] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/critical-java-vulnerabilies-confirmed-in-latest-version/ [5] http://blogs.computerworld.com/malware-and-vulnerabilities/21693/yet-another-java-security-flaw-discovered-number-53 [6] http://www.informationweek.com/security/application-security/java-hacker-uncovers-two-flaws-in-latest/240146717
According to the Security Explorations CVE map: http://www.security-explorations.com/materials/SE-2012-01-CVE_Map.pdf This public assignment of CVE-2013-1490 was ignored and different id CVE-2013-1518 was used for this issue when it was fixed in Oracle Apr 2013 CPU. See bug 952646.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 952646 ***