VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-12539

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.49%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-08-14
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

In Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0.8, users other than the process owner may be able to use Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or IBM JVM on the same machine and use Attach API operations, which includes the ability to execute untrusted native code. Attach API is enabled by default on Windows, Linux and AIX JVMs and can be disabled using the command line option -Dcom.ibm.tools.attach.enable=no.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-419: Unprotected Primary Channel
  • CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Primary references