Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Java 7 before Update 11 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by (1) using the public getMBeanInstantiator method in the JmxMBeanServer class to obtain a reference to a private MBeanInstantiator object, then retrieving arbitrary Class references using the findClass method, and (2) using the Reflection API with recursion in a way that bypasses a security check by the java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles.Lookup.checkSecurityManager method due to the inability of the sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass method to skip frames related to the new reflection API, as exploited in the wild in January 2013, as demonstrated by Blackhole and Nuclear Pack, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4681 and CVE-2012-3174. NOTE: some parties have mapped the recursive Reflection API issue to CVE-2012-3174, but CVE-2012-3174 is for a different vulnerability whose details are not public as of 20130114. CVE-2013-0422 covers both the JMX/MBean and Reflection API issues. NOTE: it was originally reported that Java 6 was also vulnerable, but the reporter has retracted this claim, stating that Java 6 is not exploitable because the relevant code is called in a way that does not bypass security checks. NOTE: as of 20130114, a reliable third party has claimed that the findClass/MBeanInstantiator vector was not fixed in Oracle Java 7 Update 11. If there is still a vulnerable condition, then a separate CVE identifier might be created for the unfixed issue.
CVE-2013-0422
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-05-25), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2013-0433 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 99EG Risk 99/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity98% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high. - EPSS PROB
- 97%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 97% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS. FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0422
Published
January 10, 2013
Last Modified
April 21, 2026
Advisory Details (6)
Auto-updated Oct 29, 2026Bugtraq: [SE-2012-01] 'Fix' for Issue 32 exploited by new Java 0-day code
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2013/Jan/480 day 1.7u10 (CVE-2013-0422) spotted in the Wild - Disable Java Plugin NOW !
http://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/2013/01/0-day-17u10-spotted-in-while-disable.htmlZero-Day Java Exploit Debuts in Crimeware – Krebs on Security
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/01/zero-day-java-exploit-debuts-in-crimeware/Immunity Products: Confirmed: Java only fixed one of the two bugs.
http://immunityproducts.blogspot.ca/2013/01/confirmed-java-only-fixed-one-of-two.htmlPatch Availability(4)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | openjdk-7-jre (7u9-2.3.4-0ubuntu1.12.10.1) @ quantal | 2026-11-01 | ubuntu |
| redhat | java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.4.0-1jpp.2.el6_4 | 2013-03-11 | redhat |
| redhat | java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.9-2.3.4.1.el6_3 | 2013-01-16 | redhat |
| redhat | java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.11-1jpp.3.el6_3 | 2013-01-14 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(4)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 181× in last 30d)
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- 2026-11-01 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-11-01 13:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 13:49 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-11-01 13:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-31 15:44 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-31 15:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-30 17:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 17:37 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-30 17:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-29 19:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 19:32 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-29 19:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-28 21:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 21:26 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-28 21:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-27 23:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 23:19 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-27 23:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-27 01:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 01:12 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-27 01:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-26 03:06 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-26 03:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-25 20:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
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- 2026-10-25 05:00 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 05:00 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-25 05:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-24 06:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 06:55 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-24 06:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-23 08:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 08:49 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-23 08:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-22 10:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 10:42 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-22 10:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-21 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-21 12:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 12:35 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-21 12:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-20 14:28 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-20 14:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-19 16:22 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-19 16:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 18:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-18 18:16 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-18 18:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 11:22 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-17 20:08 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-17 20:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-16 22:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 22:01 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-16 22:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-16 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-15 23:54 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-15 23:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-15 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-15 01:48 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-15 01:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-14 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-14 03:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 03:42 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-14 03:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-13 05:35 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-13 05:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-12 21:27 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-12 07:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-12 03:21 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 03:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 23:12 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-11 23:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 19:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 19:06 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 19:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 15:00 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-11 15:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 10:54 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 10:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-11 06:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-11 02:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-10 22:34 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 22:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-10 18:28 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 18:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-10 14:23 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 14:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-10 10:18 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 10:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-10 06:13 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 06:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r293-6mhc-29xx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
Publicly available exploits
(2 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- Exploit-DBEDB-24045✓ verifiedPublished Jan 11, 2013
Java Applet JMX - Remote Code Execution (Metasploit) (1)
Open source ↗ - Metasploitexploit/multi/browser/java_jre17_jmxbean✓ verifiedPublished Jan 10, 2013
Java Applet JMX Remote Code Execution
Open source ↗
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