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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-20952

CVE-2024-20952: 
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Overview

A vulnerability in Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, and Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition was discovered affecting multiple versions including Java SE 8u391, 11.0.21, 17.0.9, and 21.0.1. This difficult-to-exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers with network access via multiple protocols to compromise the affected systems (Oracle CPU).

Technical details

The vulnerability is related to RSA padding issues and timing side-channel attacks against TLS. It has been assigned a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 7.4 (High) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N, indicating network vector attack with high complexity, requiring no privileges or user interaction (NVD, NetApp Advisory).

Impact

Successful exploitation can result in unauthorized creation, deletion, or modification access to critical data, as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, and Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data (Oracle CPU).

Mitigation and workarounds

Oracle has released security patches as part of its January 2024 Critical Patch Update. Users are strongly advised to update to the fixed versions: Java SE 8u391, 11.0.22, 17.0.9, and 21.0.1. The vulnerability does not affect Java deployments that load and run only trusted code (Oracle CPU, Red Hat Advisory).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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