Uncaught Exception Affecting openjdk-jre package, versions [1.8.0,1.8.0_251)[11.0.0,11.0.7)[14.0.0,14.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.93% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UPSTREAM-OPENJDKJRE-565808
  • published16 Apr 2020
  • disclosed14 Apr 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-2755  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-248  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openjdk-jre to version 8.0.251, 11.0.7, 14.0.1 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 Uncaught Exception in the Nashorn JavaScript engine in the Scripting component of OpenJDK. The state machine of the regular expression Parser did not correctly handle empty string nodes in certain cases, which could cause an unexpected exception to be raised when processing a specially crafted regular expression.

CVSS Base Scores

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