CVE-2020-14779: Oracle Corporation Java SE JDK and JRE

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Oracle Corporation	Java SE JDK and JRE	affected Java SE: 7u271 affected 8u261 affected 11.0.8 affected 15; Java SE Embedded: 8u261

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
3.7	Low	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	CNA (oracle)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.038, the 89th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 21 Oct 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201023-0004/ confirm
www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4779 vendor-advisorydebian
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z7XEONOP6JB7SD7AMUWZTLZF2L4QD546/ vendor-advisoryfedora
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OMJMTXFJRONFT72YAEQNRFKYZZU4W3HD/ vendor-advisoryfedora
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00031.html mailing-listmlist
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XKRGVMZT3EUUWKUA6DBT56FT3UOKPHQ2/ vendor-advisoryfedora
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YCKZAI4AWSKO5O5VDXHFFKNLOZGZ3KEE/ vendor-advisoryfedora
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XVPLGNHNJ4UJ6IO6R2XXEKCTCI2DRPDQ/ vendor-advisoryfedora
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N6CJCO52DHIQJHLPF6HMTC5Z2VKFRQMY/ vendor-advisoryfedora
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00041.html vendor-advisorysuse
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-19 vendor-advisorygentoo

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