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high 8.1

CVE-2018-1417 json

Under certain circumstances, a flaw in the J9 JVM (IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition 7.1 and 8.0) allows untrusted code running under a secu…

published 2018-02-22 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-11996

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Under certain circumstances, a flaw in the J9 JVM (IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition 7.1 and 8.0) allows untrusted code running under a security manager to elevate its privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 138823.

Patch / fix

  • java-1.7.1-ibm RHEL 7 EXTRAS 1:1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7
  • java-1.7.1-ibm-src RHEL 7 EXTRAS 1:1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7
  • java-1.7.1-ibm-demo RHEL 7 EXTRAS 1:1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7
  • java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc RHEL 7 EXTRAS 1:1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7
  • java-1.7.1-ibm-plugin RHEL 7 EXTRAS 1:1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7
  • java-1.7.1-ibm RHEL 6 EXTRAS 1:1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9
  • java-1.7.1-ibm-src RHEL 6 EXTRAS 1:1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9
  • java-1.7.1-ibm-demo RHEL 6 EXTRAS 1:1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:0458RHSA-2018:0521RHSA-2018:0351RHSA-2018:0352RHSA-2018:1463

  • java-1_8_0-ibm SLES 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP2-BCL, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3 +7 more 1.8.0_sr5.15-30.33.1
  • java-1_7_1-ibm SLES 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP2-BCL, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3 +8 more 1.7.1_sr4.25-38.23.1
  • java-1_8_0-ibm SLE Module for Legacy 15 1.8.0_sr5.15-3.3.4
  • java-1_7_0-ibm SLES 11 SP3-TERADATA, SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 1.7.0_sr10.25-65.25.1
  • java-1_7_1-ibm SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 1.7.1_sr4.25-26.26.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:1738-2SUSE-SU-2018:1764-2SUSE-SU-2018:2068-1SUSE-SU-2018:1764-1SUSE-SU-2018:1738-1SUSE-SU-2018:1458-1

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-2018-1417 updated cvss 7.5

JDK: J9 JVM allows untrusted code running under a security manager to elevate its privileges

  • Red Hat Satellite 5 java-1.7.1-ibm
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.7.1-ibm 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.7.1-ibm-src 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.7.1-ibm 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.7.1-ibm-src 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:0458
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) java-1.7.1-ibm 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el6_9, java-1.7.1-ibm-src 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el6_9, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6) java-1.7.1-ibm 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el6_9, java-1.7.1-ibm-src 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el6_9, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) java-1.7.1-ibm 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el6_9, java-1.7.1-ibm-src 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el6_9, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:0521
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.7.1-ibm 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.7.1-ibm-src 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:0458
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) java-1.7.1-ibm 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el6_9, java-1.7.1-ibm-src 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el6_9, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.3.el6_9, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:0521
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.7.1-ibm 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.7.1-ibm-src 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.8.0-ibm-src 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc 1.7.1.4.20-1jpp.1.el7, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:0458
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.8 (RHEL v.6) java-1.8.0-ibm 1.8.0.5.10-1jpp.1.el6_9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:1463
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 java-1.5.0-ibm, java-1.6.0-ibm, java-1.5.0-ibm-src, java-1.6.0-ibm-src, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc, +6 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/A:H/AC:H/AV:N/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
CNA 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

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.