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CVE-2016-3427

Public on 2016-04-21
Modified on 2016-05-11
Description

It was discovered that the RMI server implementation in the JMX component in OpenJDK did not restrict which classes can be deserialized when deserializing authentication credentials. A remote, unauthenticated attacker able to connect to a JMX port could possibly use this flaw to trigger deserialization flaws.

Severity
Critical
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2016-05-11 11:00 ALAS-2016-700
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2016-04-27 16:15 ALAS-2016-693
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2016-04-21 16:00 ALAS-2016-688

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 9.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H