Vulnerability · Published Jan 21, 2021 · Assigned by eclipse
CVE-2020-27221
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity stack buffer overflow in Eclipse OpenJ9 from The Eclipse Foundation. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.6% (higher than 75% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)1.6%top 24.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
In Eclipse OpenJ9 up to and including version 0.23, there is potential for a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| The Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse OpenJ9 | unspecified – through 0.23 |
Weakness: CWE-121
References
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=569763 x_refsource_CONFIRM