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CVE-2016-5573

Public on 2016-10-25
Modified on 2017-02-06
Description

It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK did not properly check received Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) packets. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to send debugging commands to a Java program running with debugging enabled if they could make victim's browser send HTTP requests to the JDWP port of the debugged application.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2017-02-06 18:00 ALAS-2017-795
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2016-11-18 12:30 ALAS-2016-771
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2016-10-27 17:00 ALAS-2016-759

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 8.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H