CVE-2013-5887 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-5887?

CVE-2013-5887 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Jdk, published on 15 Jan 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u65 and 7u45 allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Deployment.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-5887?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Oracle Jdk, Oracle Jre.

How do I fix CVE-2013-5887?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2013-5887 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-5887 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Jdk

• CVE-2012-4681 Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2012-1723 Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-4805 Deserialization in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2015-4835 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2015-4843 Other in n/a Critical 10.0

All Oracle Jdk vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-hcc6-h77r-jqhr.