Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting org.graalvm.sdk:graal-sdk package, versions [,20.3.5) [21.0.0,21.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.32% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGGRAALVMSDK-2343487
  • published 19 Jan 2022
  • disclosed 18 Jan 2022
  • credit Markus Loewe

How to fix?

Upgrade org.graalvm.sdk:graal-sdk to version 20.3.5, 21.3.1 or higher.

Overview

org.graalvm.sdk:graal-sdk is a high-performance JDK distribution designed to accelerate the execution of applications written in Java and other JVM languages along with support for JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and a number of other popular languages.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling the implementation of the IdentityHashMap class doesn't properly validate the value of its size attribute when creating object instances from a serialized form. A specially-crafted input could cause a Java application to use an excessive amount of memory when deserialized.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

5.3 medium
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SUSE

5.3 medium
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Red Hat

5.3 medium