CVE-2022-21628 Denial of service in Java SE JDK and JRE

What is CVE-2022-21628?

CVE-2022-21628 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 18 Oct 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Lightweight HTTP Server). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 8u341, 8u345-perf, 11.0.16.1, 17.0.4.1, 19; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.7, 21.3.3 and 22.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Java SE, 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 Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. 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 does not apply to Java deployments, typically in servers, that load and run only trusted code (e.g., code installed by an administrator). CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.3 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-21628?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including java, java-min and jre. It affects 15 products.

Products include Azul Zulu, Fedoraproject Fedora, Netapp 7-Mode Transition Tool, Netapp Cloud Insights Acquisition Unit, Netapp Cloud Secure Agent, Netapp E-Series Santricity Os Controller and 9 more.

How do I fix CVE-2022-21628?

Upgrade java to a fixed version for your release line: 1.8.0, 8.0.351, 11.0.17 or 17.0.5.

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-2022-21628 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-21628 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora

• CVE-2022-21449 Other in Java SE JDK and JRE High 7.5
• CVE-2022-21476 Information disclosure in Java SE JDK and JRE High 7.5
• CVE-2022-21541 Other in Java SE JDK and JRE Medium 5.9
• CVE-2023-21830 Deserialization in Java SE JDK and JRE Medium 5.3
• CVE-2023-21835 Denial of service in Java SE JDK and JRE Medium 5.3

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-java-2022-21628, BIT-java-min-2022-21628, BIT-jre-2022-21628, CLEANSTART-2026-BM70179, CLEANSTART-2026-DQ31365, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21628 and 10 more.