Information disclosure in Oracle Java SE - CVE-2017-3231

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Information disclosure in Oracle Java SE - CVE-2017-3231

Published: July 5, 2017 / Updated: July 5, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7330
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-3231
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The weakness exists due to unknown error in Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded related to the Networking component. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted webpage read arbitrary files on the target system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.

Affected software

Oracle Java SE
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse

How to mitigate CVE-2017-3231

Install update from vendor's website.


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