oracle jdk CVE-2021-2161 vulnerability in Oracle and Other Products
Published on April 22, 2021

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Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Libraries). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u291, 8u281, 11.0.10, 16; Java SE Embedded: 8u281; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 19.3.5, 20.3.1.2 and 21.0.0.2. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Java SE Embedded, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Java SE, Java SE Embedded, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data. Note: This vulnerability applies to Java deployments that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. It can also be exploited by supplying untrusted data to APIs in the specified Component. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.9 (Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

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Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2021-2161 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
HIGH
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
NONE
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
NONE

Products Associated with CVE-2021-2161

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Oracle Jdk
 
Oracle Java
 
Debian Linux
 
Fedora Project Fedora
 
Oracle GraalVM
 
NetApp Active Iq Unified Manager
 
NetApp Hci Management Node
 
NetApp Solidfire
 
NetApp Hci Compute Node
 
NetApp Hci Storage Node
 
McAfee Epolicy Orchestrator
 

Affected Versions

Oracle Corporation Java SE JDK and JRE:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.34%
Percentile
56.38%

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