CVE-2019-2862 Denial of service in GraalVM Enterprise Edition
An unauthenticated attacker can cause data modification and denial of service in Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition via network access requiring user interaction.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-2862?
CVE-2019-2862 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Graalvm, published on 23 Jul 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Vulnerability in the Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition component of Oracle GraalVM (subcomponent: Java). The supported version that is affected is 19.0.0. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.8 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-2862?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oracle Graalvm.
How do I fix CVE-2019-2862?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-2862 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2019-2862 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-2862 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2021-32804 Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite due to insufficient absolute path sanitization
- CVE-2025-30749 Code injection in Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition
- CVE-2025-50106 Code injection in Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9w2v-q22g-57p4.