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CVE-2019-17631

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-10-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-285

Description

From Eclipse OpenJ9 0.15 to 0.16, access to diagnostic operations such as causing a GC or creating a diagnostic file are permitted without any privilege checks.

Affected products

• The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse OpenJ9: from 0.15.0 through 0.16.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 8.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0
• Red Hat Satellite 6: 5.8

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4113
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4115
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0006
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0046
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=552129
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4113
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4115
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0006
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0046
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=552129

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