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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2023-38264 json

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition denial of service

published 2024-05-10 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-42084

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition's Object Request Broker (ORB) 7.1.0.0 through 7.1.5.21 and 8.0.0.0 through 8.0.8.21 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack in some circumstances due to improper enforcement of the JEP 290 MaxRef and MaxDepth deserialization filters. IBM X-Force ID: 260578.

Patch / fix

  • ibm java_software_development_kit 7.1.5.22, 8.0.8.25
  • java-1.8.0-ibm RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.25-1.el8_10
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-src RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.25-1.el8_10
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.25-1.el8_10
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.25-1.el8_10
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.25-1.el8_10
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-headless RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.25-1.el8_10
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-webstart RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.25-1.el8_10
  • java-1.8.0-ibm RHEL 7 EXTRAS 1:1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:3685RHSA-2024:4160

  • java-1_8_0-ibm SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2 +11 more 1.8.0_sr8.25-150000.3.89.1
  • java-1_8_0-ibm SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 1.8.0_sr8.25-30.123.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1859-1SUSE-SU-2024:1845-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-38264 updated cvss 5.9

JDK: Object Request Broker (ORB) denial of service

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 java-1.7.1-ibm, java-1.7.1-ibm-src, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc, java-1.7.1-ibm-plugin
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:4160
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8) java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.8.25-1.el8_10, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.8.25-1.el8_10, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo 1.8.0.8.25-1.el8_10, java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc 1.8.0.8.25-1.el8_10, java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin 1.8.0.8.25-1.el8_10, java-1.8.0-ibm-headless 1.8.0.8.25-1.el8_10, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:3685
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin 1.8.0.8.25-1jpp.1.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:4160

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.