Vulnerability · Published Jan 16, 2024 · Assigned by oracle

CVE-2024-20918

High 7.4

In plain English

A high-severity improper access control 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 0.9% (higher than 60% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.4High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 39.6% 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 for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Hotspot). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 8u391, 8u391-perf, 11.0.21, 17.0.9, 21.0.1; Oracle GraalVM for JDK: 17.0.9, 21.0.1; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.12, 21.3.8 and 22.3.4. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data. Note: This vulnerability can be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. This vulnerability also 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. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility-fastdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility-slowdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-fastdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-fastdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-slowdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-slowdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-fastdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-fastdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-slowdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-slowdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-fastdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-fastdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-fastdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-fastdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-slowdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-slowdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc-zip1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc-zip1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-slowdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-slowdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-src1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-src1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-fastdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-fastdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:8java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-slowdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el8ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-slowdebug1:1.8.0.402.b06-2.el9ALSA-2024:0265
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-demo1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-demo-fastdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-demo-slowdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-devel1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-devel-fastdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-devel-slowdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-fastdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-headless1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-headless-fastdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-headless-slowdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-javadoc1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-javadoc-zip1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-jmods1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-jmods-fastdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-jmods-slowdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-slowdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-src1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-src-fastdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-src-slowdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-static-libs1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-static-libs-fastdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-11-openjdk-static-libs-slowdebug1:11.0.22.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0266
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-demo1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-demo-fastdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-demo-slowdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-devel1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-devel-fastdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-devel-slowdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-fastdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-headless1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-headless-fastdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-headless-slowdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-javadoc1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-javadoc-zip1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-jmods1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-jmods-fastdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-jmods-slowdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-slowdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-src1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-src-fastdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-src-slowdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-static-libs1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-static-libs-fastdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:9java-17-openjdk-static-libs-slowdebug1:17.0.10.0.7-2.el9ALSA-2024:0267
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-demo1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-demo1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-demo-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-demo-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-demo-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-demo-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-devel1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-devel1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-devel-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-devel-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-devel-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-devel-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-headless1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-headless1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-headless-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-headless-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-headless-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-headless-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-javadoc1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-javadoc1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-javadoc-zip1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-javadoc-zip1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-jmods1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-jmods1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-jmods-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-jmods-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-jmods-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-jmods-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-src1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-src1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-src-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-src-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-src-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-src-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-static-libs1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-static-libs1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-static-libs-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-static-libs-fastdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
AlmaLinux:8java-21-openjdk-static-libs-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el8.alma.1ALSA-2024:0248
AlmaLinux:9java-21-openjdk-static-libs-slowdebug1:21.0.2.0.13-1.el9.alma.1ALSA-2024:0249
Alpine:v3.20openjdk1111.0.22_p7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.21openjdk1111.0.22_p7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.22openjdk1111.0.22_p7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.23openjdk1111.0.22_p7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.24openjdk1111.0.22_p7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.20openjdk1717.0.10_p7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.21openjdk1717.0.10_p7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.22openjdk1717.0.10_p7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.23openjdk1717.0.10_p7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.24openjdk1717.0.10_p7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.20openjdk2121.0.2_p13-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.21openjdk2121.0.2_p13-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.22openjdk2121.0.2_p13-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.23openjdk2121.0.2_p13-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.24openjdk2121.0.2_p13-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.20openjdk88.402.06-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.21openjdk88.402.06-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.22openjdk88.402.06-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.23openjdk88.402.06-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Alpine:v3.24openjdk88.402.06-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-20918
Debian:12openjdk-1717.0.10+7-1~deb12u1DSA-5613-1
Debian:12openjdk-1717.0.10+7-1~deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-20918
Debian:13openjdk-2121.0.2+13-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-20918
Debian:14openjdk-2121.0.2+13-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-20918
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSopenjdk-1717.0.10+7-1~22.04.1USN-6661-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSopenjdk-1717.0.10+7-1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-20918
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSopenjdk-18no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-20918
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSopenjdk-2121.0.2+13-1~22.04.1USN-6662-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSopenjdk-2121.0.2+13-1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-20918
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSopenjdk-88u402-ga-2ubuntu1~22.04UBUNTU-CVE-2024-20918
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSopenjdk-88u402-ga-2ubuntu1~22.04USN-6696-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSopenjdk-88u432-ga~us1-0ubuntu2~22.04USN-7096-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSopenjdk-88u432-ga~us1-0ubuntu2~24.04USN-7096-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSopenjdk-lts11.0.22+7-0ubuntu2~22.04.1USN-6660-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSopenjdk-lts11.0.22+7-0ubuntu2~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-20918

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Oracle Corporation Java SE JDK and JRE Oracle Java SE:8u391Oracle Java SE:8u391-perfOracle Java SE:11.0.21Oracle Java SE:17.0.9Oracle Java SE:21.0.1Oracle GraalVM for JDK:17.0.9Oracle GraalVM for JDK:21.0.1Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:20.3.12

Weakness: CWE-284 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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