5.9 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
7.3 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
43.8%
Oracle OpenJDK is prone to a vulnerability in the hotspot/gc
component.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:oracle:openjdk";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.104690");
script_version("2023-10-20T05:06:03+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-10-20 05:06:03 +0000 (Fri, 20 Oct 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-04-19 07:23:18 +0000 (Wed, 19 Apr 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.4");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-04-18 20:37:00 +0000 (Tue, 18 Apr 2023)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-21954");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Oracle OpenJDK Vulnerability (CVE-2023-21954)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("secpod_openjdk_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("openjdk/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Oracle OpenJDK is prone to a vulnerability in the hotspot/gc
component.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated
attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM
Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to
critical data or complete access to all Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition
accessible data.
Note: This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java
Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code
that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability can
also be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which
supplies data to the APIs.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Oracle OpenJDK versions 8, 11 and 17.
Note: The vendor is only evaluating the affected status of supported versions but EOL versions
like 9 or 13 in between the affected versions are also assumed to be affected.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://openjdk.org/groups/vulnerability/advisories/2023-04-18");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/vuln-announce/2023-April/000019.html");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "1.8.0", test_version2: "1.8.0.362")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "1.8.0.372 (8u372)", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.0", test_version2: "11.0.18")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "11.0.19", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "12.0", test_version2: "17.0.6")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "17.0.7", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
5.9 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
7.3 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
43.8%