Improper access control in Oracle Java SE - CVE-2017-10293

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Improper access control in Oracle Java SE - CVE-2017-10293

Published: October 18, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8866
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-10293
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to access potentially sensitive information.

The weakness exists due to a flaw in the Javadoc component. A remote attacker can partially read and modify arbitrary files on the target system.

Affected software

Oracle Java SE
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
java-1.6.0-sun-devel (Red Hat package)
java-1.6.0-sun-demo (Red Hat package)
java-1.6.0-sun (Red Hat package)
java-1.6.0-sun-src (Red Hat package)
java-1.6.0-sun-plugin (Red Hat package)
java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc (Red Hat package)
java-1.7.0-oracle-src (Red Hat package)
java-1.7.0-oracle (Red Hat package)
java-1.7.0-oracle-devel (Red Hat package)
java-1.7.0-oracle-javafx (Red Hat package)
java-1.7.0-oracle-jdbc (Red Hat package)
java-1.7.0-oracle-plugin (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-oracle-plugin (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-oracle-jdbc (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-oracle (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-oracle-javafx (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-oracle-src (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-oracle-devel (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2017-10293

The vulnerability is addressed in the following version: 8u151.

java-1.6.0-sun-devel (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el6, 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.6.0-sun-demo (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el6, 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.6.0-sun (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el6, 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.6.0-sun-src (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el6, 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.6.0-sun-plugin (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el6, 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el6, 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.7.0-oracle-src (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.0.161-1jpp.3.el6, 1.7.0.161-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.7.0-oracle (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.0.161-1jpp.3.el6, 1.7.0.161-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.7.0-oracle-devel (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.0.161-1jpp.3.el6, 1.7.0.161-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.7.0-oracle-javafx (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.0.161-1jpp.3.el6, 1.7.0.161-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.7.0-oracle-jdbc (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.0.161-1jpp.3.el6, 1.7.0.161-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.7.0-oracle-plugin (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.0.161-1jpp.3.el6, 1.7.0.161-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.8.0-oracle-plugin (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.151-1jpp.1.el6, 1.8.0.151-1jpp.5.el7
java-1.8.0-oracle-jdbc (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.151-1jpp.1.el6, 1.8.0.151-1jpp.5.el7
java-1.8.0-oracle (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.151-1jpp.1.el6, 1.8.0.151-1jpp.5.el7
java-1.8.0-oracle-javafx (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.151-1jpp.1.el6, 1.8.0.151-1jpp.5.el7
java-1.8.0-oracle-src (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.151-1jpp.1.el6, 1.8.0.151-1jpp.5.el7
java-1.8.0-oracle-devel (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.151-1jpp.1.el6, 1.8.0.151-1jpp.5.el7

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