Oracle Java SE up to 21.0.1 Hotspot information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Java SE up to 8u391/8u391-perf/11.0.21/17.0.9/21.0.1 and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Hotspot. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-20921. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Java SE up to 8u391/8u391-perf/11.0.21/17.0.9/21.0.1 (Programming Language Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Hotspot. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Hotspot). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 8u391, 8u391-perf, 11.0.21, 17.0.9, 21.0.1; Oracle GraalVM for JDK: 17.0.9, 21.0.1; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.12, 21.3.8 and 22.3.4. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data. Note: This vulnerability can be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. This vulnerability also applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.9 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

The weakness was shared 01/16/2024 as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2024. The advisory is available at oracle.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-20921. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/05/2024). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product decreasing in the near future.This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 208585 (CentOS 7 : java-1.8.0-ibm (RHSA-2024:1482)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (208585). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Type

• Programming Language Software

Vendor

• Oracle

Name

• Java SE

Version

• 8u391
• 8u391-perf
• 11.0.0
• 11.0.1
• 11.0.2
• 11.0.3
• 11.0.4
• 11.0.5
• 11.0.6
• 11.0.7
• 11.0.8
• 11.0.9
• 11.0.10
• 11.0.11
• 11.0.12
• 11.0.13
• 11.0.14
• 11.0.15
• 11.0.16
• 11.0.17
• 11.0.18
• 11.0.19
• 11.0.20
• 11.0.21
• 17.0.0
• 17.0.1
• 17.0.2
• 17.0.3
• 17.0.4
• 17.0.5
• 17.0.6
• 17.0.7
• 17.0.8
• 17.0.9
• 21.0.0
• 21.0.1

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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