Vulnerability · Published Jan 19, 2022 · Assigned by oracle

CVE-2022-21366

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption 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 3.2% (higher than 88% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)3.2%top 11.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: ImageIO). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 11.0.13, 17.0.1; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.4 and 21.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle 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 5.3 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-demo1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-demo-fastdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-demo-slowdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-devel1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-devel-fastdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-devel-slowdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-fastdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-headless1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-headless-fastdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-headless-slowdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-javadoc1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-javadoc-zip1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-jmods1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-jmods-fastdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-jmods-slowdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-slowdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-src1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-src-fastdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-src-slowdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-static-libs1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-static-libs-fastdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-11-openjdk-static-libs-slowdebug1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5ALSA-2022:0185
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-demo1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-demo-fastdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-demo-slowdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-devel1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-devel-fastdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-devel-slowdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-fastdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-headless1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-headless-fastdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-headless-slowdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-javadoc1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-javadoc-zip1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-jmods1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-jmods-fastdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-jmods-slowdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-slowdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-src1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-src-fastdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-src-slowdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-static-libs1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-static-libs-fastdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
AlmaLinux:8java-17-openjdk-static-libs-slowdebug1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5ALSA-2022:0161
Alpine:v3.20openjdk1111.0.14_p9-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-21366
Alpine:v3.21openjdk1111.0.14_p9-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-21366
Alpine:v3.22openjdk1111.0.14_p9-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-21366
Alpine:v3.23openjdk1111.0.14_p9-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-21366
Alpine:v3.24openjdk1111.0.14_p9-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-21366
Alpine:v3.20openjdk1717.0.2_p8-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-21366
Alpine:v3.21openjdk1717.0.2_p8-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-21366
Alpine:v3.22openjdk1717.0.2_p8-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-21366
Alpine:v3.23openjdk1717.0.2_p8-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-21366
Alpine:v3.24openjdk1717.0.2_p8-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-21366
Debian:12openjdk-1717.0.2+8-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21366
Rocky Linux:8java-11-openjdk1:11.0.14.0.9-2.el8_5RLSA-2022:0185
Rocky Linux:8java-17-openjdk1:17.0.2.0.8-4.el8_5RLSA-2022:0161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSicedtea-webno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-21366
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSicedtea-webno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-21366
Ubuntu:25.10icedtea-webno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-21366
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSicedtea-webno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-21366
Ubuntu:26.10icedtea-webno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-21366
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSopenjdk-18no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-21366

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Oracle Corporation Java SE JDK and JRE Oracle Java SE:11.0.13Oracle Java SE:17.0.1Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:20.3.4Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:21.3.0

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References