CVE-2023-22025
Amazon Corretto JDK vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2023-22025 is a vulnerability discovered in Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, and Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition components, specifically affecting the Hotspot component. The affected versions include Oracle Java SE 8u381-perf, 17.0.8, and 21; Oracle GraalVM for JDK 17.0.8 and 21; and Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition 21.3.7 and 22.3.3. This vulnerability was first disclosed in October 2023 as part of Oracle's Critical Patch Update (Oracle CPU).

Technical details

The vulnerability is characterized as difficult to exploit and allows unauthenticated attackers with network access via multiple protocols to compromise the affected components. It has been assigned a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 3.7 (LOW) with the vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability specifically relates to a memory corruption issue on x86_64 systems with AVX-512 (Red Hat Advisory).

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of the accessible data in the affected components. The vulnerability can be exploited through APIs in the specified Component, such as through web services which supply data to the APIs (Oracle CPU).

Mitigation and workarounds

Oracle has released patches for the affected versions as part of its October 2023 Critical Patch Update. Various vendors have also released fixes for their products incorporating Java SE, including Red Hat's update to java-17-openjdk (version 17.0.9.0.9-1) and Debian's security update (version 17.0.9+9-1~deb12u1). It is strongly recommended to apply these security patches without delay (Red Hat Advisory, Debian Advisory).

Community reactions

The vulnerability has been acknowledged and addressed by multiple major vendors including Oracle, Red Hat, Debian, and NetApp, indicating its significance in the industry. NetApp has provided detailed advisories and fixes for their affected products, demonstrating the ripple effect of this vulnerability across the technology ecosystem (NetApp Advisory).

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