Information Exposure Affecting openjdk-jre package, versions [11.0.3,11.0.4)[12.0.1,12.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.64% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UPSTREAM-OPENJDKJRE-451654
  • published18 Jul 2019
  • disclosed15 Jul 2019
  • creditTomas Hoger

Introduced: 15 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-2818  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openjdk-jre to version 11.0.4, 12.0.2 or higher.

Overview

openjdk-jre is a free and open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE).

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The ChaCha20Cipher implementation in the Security component of OpenJDK used non-constant time comparison for comparing tags. A remote attacker could possible use the flaw to leak information about decryption state using the timing information.

CVSS Base Scores

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