CVE-2018-12539

CWE-419CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted DataCWE-287 — Improper Authentication5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.0%
top 85.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
THE Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Openj9Eclipse Openj9Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform
Timeline
PublishedAug 14
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0.8, users other than the process owner may be able to use Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or IBM JVM on the same machine and use Attach API operations, which includes the ability to execute untrusted native code. Attach API is enabled by default on Windows, Linux and AIX JVMs and can be disabled using the command line option -Dcom.ibm.tools.attach.enable=no.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDoracle/enterprise_manager_base_platform13.2.0.0.0, 13.3.0.0.0+1

Patches

Patch: www.oracle.com ↗Patch: www.oracle.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-8xmg-5xjr-x475: In Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2018-12539: In Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0↗2018-08-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
JDK: privilege escalation via insufficiently restricted access to Attach API↗2018-05-11
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-12539 IBM JDK: privilege escalation via insufficiently restricted access to Attach API↗2018-08-17
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CVE-2018-12539 (HIGH CVSS 7.8) | In Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0.8 | cvebase.io