CVE-2025-23083 Affecting openjdk21 package, versions <21.0.7_p6-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE320-OPENJDK21-9784930
  • published19 Apr 2025
  • disclosed22 Jan 2025

Introduced: 22 Jan 2025

CVE-2025-23083  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 openjdk21 to version 21.0.7_p6-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openjdk21 package and not the openjdk21 package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

With the aid of the diagnostics_channel utility, an event can be hooked into whenever a worker thread is created. This is not limited only to workers but also exposes internal workers, where an instance of them can be fetched, and its constructor can be grabbed and reinstated for malicious usage.

This vulnerability affects Permission Model users (--permission) on Node.js v20, v22, and v23.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1