Oracle Java SE up to 21.0.1 Security 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. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Security. Executing a manipulation can lead to information disclosure. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-20945. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Oracle Java SE up to 8u391/8u391-perf/11.0.21/17.0.9/21.0.1 (Programming Language Software). This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Security. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Security). 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 low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition executes 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 4.7 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

The weakness was released 01/16/2024 as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2024. The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-20945. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

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). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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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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