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high 7.8

CVE-2025-4447 json

Buffer Overflow in Eclipse OpenJ9

published 2025-05-09 18 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-14192

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 13%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Eclipse OpenJ9 versions up to 0.51, when used with OpenJDK version 8 a stack based buffer overflow can be caused by modifying a file on disk that is read when the JVM starts.

Patch / fix

  • eclipse openj9 0.51.0
  • java-1.8.0-ibm RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.45-1.el8_10
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-src RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.45-1.el8_10
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.45-1.el8_10
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.45-1.el8_10
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.45-1.el8_10
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-headless RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.45-1.el8_10
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-webstart RHEL 8 1:1.8.0.8.45-1.el8_10

red hat advisories RHSA-2025:8431

  • java-1_8_0-openj9 SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 1.8.0.452-150200.3.54.2
  • java-1_8_0-ibm SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3 +9 more 1.8.0_sr8.45-150000.3.101.1
  • java-1_8_0-ibm SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 1.8.0_sr8.45-30.135.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:01954-1SUSE-SU-2025:01788-1SUSE-SU-2025:01770-1

  • java-1_8_0-openj9 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.8.0.452-3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15231-1

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-2025-4447 updated cvss 7.0

java-1.8.0-ibm: Buffer Overflow in Eclipse OpenJ9

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8) java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.8.45-1.el8_10, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.8.45-1.el8_10, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo 1.8.0.8.45-1.el8_10, java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc 1.8.0.8.45-1.el8_10, java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin 1.8.0.8.45-1.el8_10, java-1.8.0-ibm-headless 1.8.0.8.45-1.el8_10, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:8431

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 7.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 7.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Eclipse Foundation OpenJ9

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

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.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.