Vulnerability · Published Oct 20, 2021 · Assigned by oracle

CVE-2021-35588

Low 3.1

In plain English

A low-severity security flaw in Java SE JDK and JRE from Oracle Corporation. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.9% (higher than 90% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)3.1Low
Exploit odds (30 days)3.9%top 9.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Hotspot). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u311, 8u301; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.3 and 21.2.0. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. 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 3.1 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility-fastdebug1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility-slowdebug1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-fastdebug1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-slowdebug1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-fastdebug1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-slowdebug1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-fastdebug1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-fastdebug1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-slowdebug1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc-zip1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-slowdebug1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-src1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-fastdebug1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-slowdebug1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4ALSA-2021:3893
Alpine:v3.20openjdk88.312.07-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-35588
Alpine:v3.21openjdk88.312.07-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-35588
Alpine:v3.22openjdk88.312.07-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-35588
Alpine:v3.23openjdk88.312.07-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-35588
Alpine:v3.24openjdk88.312.07-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-35588
Rocky Linux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_4RLSA-2021:3893

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Oracle Corporation Java SE JDK and JRE Java SE:7u311Java SE:8u301Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:20.3.3Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:21.2.0

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