CVE-2020-14779

Severity
3.7LOW
EPSS
0.2%
top 57.91%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedOct 21
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (component: Serialization). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u271, 8u261, 11.0.8 and 15; Java SE Embedded: 8u261. Difficult to exploit 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 ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Java SE, Java

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages10 packages

NVDoracle/jdk4 versions+3
NVDoracle/jre4 versions+3
NVDoracle/openjdk17 versions+16
Ubuntuopenjdk-8< 8u272-b10-0ubuntu1~16.04+2

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 9.0, Fedora 31, 32, 33

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
GHSA-ppr6-rwxr-hfr8: Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (component: Serialization)2022-05-24
OSV
openjdk-8, openjdk-lts regressions2020-11-12
OSV
openjdk-8, openjdk-lts vulnerabilities2020-10-27
OSV
CVE-2020-14779: Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (component: Serialization)2020-10-21
CVEList
CVE-2020-14779: Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (component: Serialization)2020-10-21

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
OpenJDK regressions2020-11-12
Ubuntu
OpenJDK vulnerabilities2020-10-27
Red Hat
OpenJDK: High memory usage during deserialization of Proxy class with many interfaces (Serialization, 8236862)2020-10-20
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Java SE Risk Matrix: Serialization — CVE-2020-147792020-10-15
Debian
CVE-2020-14779: openjdk-11 - Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (compon...2020

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-14779 OpenJDK: High memory usage during deserialization of Proxy class with many interfaces (Serialization, 8236862)2020-10-19
CVE-2020-14779 (LOW CVSS 3.7) | Vulnerability in the Java SE | cvebase.io