CVE-2020-14621

Severity
5.3MEDIUM
EPSS
0.5%
top 35.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJul 15
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (component: JAXP). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u261, 8u251, 11.0.7 and 14.0.1; Java SE Embedded: 8u251. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Java SE Embedded. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Java SE, Java SE Embedded accessible dat

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages8 packages

CVEListV5oracle_corporation/javaJava SE Embedded: 8u251, Java SE: 7u261, 8u251, 11.0.7, 14.0.1+1
NVDoracle/jdk4 versions+3
NVDoracle/jre4 versions+3
NVDoracle/openjdk15 versions+14
Debianopenjdk-11< 11.0.8+10-1

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 9.0, Fedora 31, 32, Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 20.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-p493-cq87-mf78: Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (component: JAXP)2022-05-24
GHSA
Improper Input Validation in Xerces2022-02-15
OSV
CVE-2020-14621: Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (component: JAXP)2020-07-15
CVEList
CVE-2020-14621: Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (component: JAXP)2020-07-15

📋Vendor Advisories

6
Red Hat
wildfly: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of use-grammar-pool-only in xercesImpl2020-08-27
Ubuntu
OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities2020-08-05
Ubuntu
OpenJDK vulnerabilities2020-07-23
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Java SE Risk Matrix: JAXP — CVE-2020-146212020-07-15
Red Hat
OpenJDK: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of the use-grammar-pool-only feature (JAXP, 8242136)2020-07-14

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-14338 wildfly: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of use-grammar-pool-only in xercesImpl2020-07-23
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-14621 OpenJDK: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of the use-grammar-pool-only feature (JAXP, 8242136)2020-07-14