🛡️ CVE-2020-2593 — java

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded product of Oracle Java SE (component: Networking). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u241, 8u231, 11.0.5 and 13.0.1; Java SE Embedded: 8u231. 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 update, insert or delete access to some of Java SE, Java SE Embedded accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Java SE, Java SE Embedded accessible data. Note: This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets (in Java SE 8), that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability can also be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.8 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N).

Affected software

CVE-2020-2593 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • java
  • java-min
  • jre

Timeline and source

Published on 6 May 2026 and last revised on 8 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-05-06
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-05-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
java
java-min
jre

References

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