CVE-2018-12539

HIGH

Eclipse OpenJ9 0.8 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0.8, users other than the process owner may be able to use Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or IBM JVM on the same machine and use Attach API operations, which includes the ability to execute untrusted native code. Attach API is enabled by default on Windows, Linux and AIX JVMs and can be disabled using the command line option -Dcom.ibm.tools.attach.enable=no.

References (10)

Core 10
Core References
Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2713
Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2575
Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2576
Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2568
Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2569
Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2712
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041765
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105126
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=534589

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 15.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-502 CWE-419
Status published
Products (3)
eclipse/openj9 0.8
oracle/enterprise_manager_base_platform 13.2.0.0.0
oracle/enterprise_manager_base_platform 13.3.0.0.0
Published Aug 14, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026