CVE-2023-22081 Denial of service in Java SE JDK and JRE

What is CVE-2023-22081?

CVE-2023-22081 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netapp Cloud Insights Acquisition Unit, published on 17 Oct 2023. 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 for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: JSSE). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 8u381, 8u381-perf, 11.0.20, 17.0.8, 21; Oracle GraalVM for JDK: 17.0.8, 21; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.11, 21.3.7 and 22.3.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTPS to compromise Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, 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 for JDK, 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-2023-22081?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including java, java-min and jre. It affects 5 products.

Products include Netapp Cloud Insights Acquisition Unit, Netapp Cloud Insights Storage Workload Security Agent, Oracle Graalvm for Jdk, Oracle Jdk, Oracle Jre.

How do I fix CVE-2023-22081?

Upgrade java to a fixed version for your release line: 1.8.0, 8.0.391, 11.0.22 or 17.0.9.

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-2023-22081 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-22081 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Netapp Cloud Insights Acquisition Unit

• CVE-2024-20932 Security feature bypass in Java SE JDK and JRE High 7.5
• CVE-2023-22067 Missing authorization in Java SE JDK and JRE Medium 5.3
• CVE-2023-22025 Other in Java SE JDK and JRE Low 3.7
• CVE-2024-20922 Other in Java SE JDK and JRE Low 2.5

All Netapp Cloud Insights Acquisition Unit vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALSA-2023:5742, ALSA-2023:5744, BELL-CVE-2023-22081, BIT-java-2023-22081, BIT-java-min-2023-22081, BIT-jre-2023-22081 and 31 more.