Protection Mechanism Failure in openjdk - CVE-2019-2786

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Protection Mechanism Failure in openjdk - CVE-2019-2786

Published: July 22, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19281
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-2786
CWE-ID: CWE-693
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to the the AccessController class implementation in the Security component failed in certain cases. A remote attacker can use an untrusted Java application or applet to bypass certain Java sandbox restrictions.

The vulnerability affects openjdk-jre package of an implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE).

Affected software

openjdk
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Opensuse
IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor
Red Hat Satellite
Java SE Embedded
openjdk8 (Alpine package)
java-1.7.0-openjdk (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-ibm-src (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-ibm-devel (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-ibm (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-ibm-demo (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-ibm-webstart (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-ibm-headless (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-openjdk (Red Hat package)
java-11-openjdk (Red Hat package)
Data Computing Appliance (DCA)
Dell EMC Unity Operating Environment (OE)
Dell EMC Unity VSA Operating Environment (OE)

How to mitigate CVE-2019-2786

Install updates from vendor's website.

openjdk - addressed in versions 11.0.4, 12.0.2
IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor - update to 2.0.2
openjdk8 (Alpine package) - update to 8.222.10-r0
java-1.7.0-openjdk (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.0.231-2.6.19.1.el6_10, 1.7.0.231-2.6.19.1.el7_6
java-1.8.0-ibm-src (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.5.40-1jpp.1.el6_10, 1.8.0.5.40-1jpp.1.el7, 1.8.0.5.40-3.el8_0
java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.5.40-1jpp.1.el6_10, 1.8.0.5.40-1jpp.1.el7, 1.8.0.5.40-3.el8_0
java-1.8.0-ibm-devel (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.5.40-1jpp.1.el6_10, 1.8.0.5.40-1jpp.1.el7, 1.8.0.5.40-3.el8_0
java-1.8.0-ibm (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.5.40-1jpp.1.el6_10, 1.8.0.5.40-1jpp.1.el7, 1.8.0.5.40-3.el8_0
java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.5.40-1jpp.1.el6_10, 1.8.0.5.40-1jpp.1.el7, 1.8.0.5.40-3.el8_0
java-1.8.0-ibm-demo (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.5.40-1jpp.1.el6_10, 1.8.0.5.40-1jpp.1.el7, 1.8.0.5.40-3.el8_0
java-1.8.0-ibm-webstart (Red Hat package) - update to 1.8.0.5.40-3.el8_0
java-1.8.0-ibm-headless (Red Hat package) - update to 1.8.0.5.40-3.el8_0
java-1.8.0-openjdk (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.222.b10-0.el6_10, 1.8.0.222.b10-0.el7_6, 1.8.0.222.b10-0.el8_0
Data Computing Appliance (DCA) - update to 3.5.4.0
Dell EMC Unity Operating Environment (OE) - update to 5.0.3.0.5.014
Dell EMC Unity VSA Operating Environment (OE) - update to 5.0.3.0.5.014
java-11-openjdk (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 11.0.4.11-0.el7_6, 11.0.4.11-0.el8_0

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