U.S. flag   An official website of the United States government
Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-5456 Detail

Description

The com.ibm.rmi.io.SunSerializableFactory class in IBM Java SDK 7.0.0 before SR6 allows remote attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism and execute arbitrary code via vectors related to deserialization inside the AccessController doPrivileged block.


Metrics

 
NVD enrichment efforts reference publicly available information to associate vector strings. CVSS information contributed by other sources is also displayed.
CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to [email protected].

URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00013.html CVE, IBM Corporation
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1507.html CVE, IBM Corporation
http://secunia.com/advisories/56338 CVE, IBM Corporation
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV51329 CVE, IBM Corporation
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21655201 CVE, IBM Corporation Vendor Advisory 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21655202 CVE, IBM Corporation Vendor Advisory 
http://www.security-explorations.com/materials/SE-2012-01-IBM-3.pdf CVE, IBM Corporation
http://www.security-explorations.com/materials/SE-2012-01-IBM-5.pdf CVE, IBM Corporation
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/88255 CVE, IBM Corporation
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/#IBM_Security_Update_November_2013 CVE, IBM Corporation Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo Insufficient Information cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

CPEs loading, please wait.

Denotes Vulnerable Software
Are we missing a CPE here? Please let us know.

Change History

6 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2013-5456
NVD Published Date:
11/24/2013
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
IBM Corporation