CVE-2020-2581 Denial of service in GraalVM Enterprise Edition

Medium 4.0 Published 15 Jan 2020 Updated 30 Sep 2024

An unauthenticated attacker with local access can cause a partial denial of service in Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition via the LLVM Interpreter.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2020-2581?

CVE-2020-2581 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Graalvm, published on 15 Jan 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle GraalVM (component: LLVM Interpreter). The supported version that is affected is 19.3.0.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition executes to compromise Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.0 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-2581?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Graalvm.

How do I fix CVE-2020-2581?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-2581 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-2020-2581 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-2581 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-wf3w-m23x-pwh9.