Oracle Java SE/Swing RCE via HTTP (8u361, 11.0.18, 17.0.6, 20)
CVE-2023-21939 Published on April 18, 2023

Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Swing). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 8u361, 8u361-perf, 11.0.18, 17.0.6, 20; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.9, 21.3.5 and 22.3.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data. Note: This vulnerability 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. This vulnerability can also be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.3 (Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N).

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2023-21939 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.

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

Products Associated with CVE-2023-21939

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Oracle Java
 
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Oracle GraalVM
 
Canonical Ubuntu Linux
 
NetApp Oncommand Insight
 
NetApp 7 Mode Transition Tool
 
NetApp Brocade San Navigator
 
NetApp Cloud Insights Acquisition Unit
 
NetApp Cloud Insights Storage Workload Security Agent
 
Debian Linux
 

Affected Versions

Oracle Corporation Java SE JDK and JRE:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
1.86%
Percentile
82.78%

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