CVE-2017-10198
Public on 2017-07-25
Modified on 2017-12-21
Description
It was discovered that the Security component of OpenJDK could fail to properly enforce restrictions defined for processing of X.509 certificate chains. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to make Java accept certificate using one of the disabled algorithms.
Severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
| Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 1 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2017-12-20 | ALAS-2017-936 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-07-25 | ALAS-2017-860 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
| Score Type | Score | Vector | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVD | CVSSv2 | 4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| NVD | CVSSv3 | 6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |