CVE-2023-22049
Java vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A vulnerability was discovered in Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition, and Oracle GraalVM for JDK (component: Libraries). The affected versions include Oracle Java SE: 8u371, 8u371-perf, 11.0.19, 17.0.7, 20.0.1; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.10, 21.3.6, 22.3.2; Oracle GraalVM for JDK: 17.0.7 and 20.0.1. The vulnerability was disclosed in July 2023 (Oracle CPU).

Technical details

The vulnerability is characterized by improper handling of slash characters in URI-to-path conversion (reference ID: 8305312). 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. This indicates that while the vulnerability is network-accessible, it requires high attack complexity, needs no privileges, and requires no user interaction (Oracle CPU).

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition, and Oracle GraalVM for JDK accessible data. The vulnerability can be exploited through APIs in the specified Component, such as through a web service which supplies data to the APIs (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Oracle has released patches to address this vulnerability in their July 2023 Critical Patch Update. Users are advised to update to the fixed versions. For Debian systems, fixes have been released in version 11.0.20+8-1~deb10u1 for Debian 10 and version 17.0.8+7-1~deb12u1 for the stable distribution (Debian Advisory, Debian LTS).

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