CVE-2018-2633

Public on 2018-01-18

Modified on 2018-03-23

Description

It was discovered that the LDAPCertStore class in the JNDI component of OpenJDK failed to securely handle LDAP referrals. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to make it fetch attacker controlled certificate data.

Severity

Important

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CVSS v3 Base Score

8.3

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	java-1.7.0-openjdk	2018-03-21 22:12	ALAS-2018-974
Amazon Linux 1	java-1.8.0-openjdk	2018-02-07 17:45	ALAS-2018-949
Amazon Linux 2 - Core	java-1.8.0-openjdk	2018-02-07 17:47	ALAS2-2018-949

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	8.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	CVSSv2	5.1	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD	CVSSv3	8.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-2633 Mitre: CVE-2018-2633 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity