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Exploring The Java Vulnerability Used In The Fiesta EK

ID: 36d3f405-6298-5118-9190-83bf521882ee

STIX ID: report--36d3f405-6298-5118-9190-83bf521882ee

Feed Name: Zscaler Security Research Blog

Threat Score
60/100

Date Published: 2025-04-02

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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This report analyzes the Fiesta Exploit Kit delivering a malicious JAR that exploits CVE-2013-2465 via crafted BufferedImage/ColorModel usage and an AffineTransformOp.filter() heap overflow to bypass Java sandbox protections, allowing the kit to download and execute payloads; it includes code-obfuscation notes, an MD5 hash for the JAR, and mitigation advice to update or remove Java.

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