CVE-2024-21138 Denial of service in Java SE JDK and JRE

What is CVE-2024-21138?

CVE-2024-21138 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, published on 16 Jul 2024. 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: Hotspot). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 8u411, 8u411-perf, 11.0.23, 17.0.11, 21.0.3, 22.0.1; Oracle GraalVM for JDK: 17.0.11, 21.0.3, 22.0.1; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.14 and 21.3.10. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols 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 can be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. This vulnerability also 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. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 3.7 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-21138?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including java, java-min and jre. It affects 9 products.

Products include Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Bluexp, Netapp Data Infrastructure Insights Storage Workload Security Agent, Netapp Oncommand Insight, Netapp Oncommand Workflow Automation, Oracle Graalvm and 3 more.

How do I fix CVE-2024-21138?

Upgrade java to a fixed version for your release line: 1.8.0, 8.0.421, 11.0.24 or 17.0.12.

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-2024-21138 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-21138 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager

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• CVE-2022-22978 Authorization bypass in Spring Security Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-22931 Code injection in Node Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-2938 Code injection in Java Critical 9.0

All Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-java-2024-21138, BIT-java-min-2024-21138, BIT-jre-2024-21138, CLEANSTART-2026-AM77941, CLEANSTART-2026-GF50257, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-21138 and 12 more.