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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2018-2972 json

Vulnerability in the Java SE component of Oracle Java SE (subcomponent: Security).

published 2018-07-18 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-14827

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Vulnerability in the Java SE component of Oracle Java SE (subcomponent: Security). The supported version that is affected is Java SE: 10.0.1. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Java SE accessible data. Note: Applies to client and server deployment of Java. This vulnerability can be exploited through sandboxed Java Web Start applications and sandboxed Java applets. It can also be exploited by supplying data to APIs in the specified Component without using sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, such as through a web service. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.9 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

Patch / fix

  • oracle java_se 10.0.2
  • oracle jdk 10.0.2
  • oracle jre 10.0.2
  • sun java 10.0.2
  • sun java_se 10.0.2
  • sun jdk 10.0.2
  • sun jre 10.0.2
  • oracle openjdk 10.0.2
  • sun openjdk 10.0.2
  • openjdk-lts Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 10.0.2+13-1ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-2972

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • java-10-openjdk SLE Module for Basesystem 15 10.0.2.0-3.3.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:2083-1

  • java-11-openjdk openSUSE Tumbleweed 11.0.12.0-3.1
  • java-13-openjdk openSUSE Tumbleweed 13.0.8.0-3.1
  • java-15-openjdk openSUSE Tumbleweed 15.0.4.0-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10871-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10872-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10873-1

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-2018-2972 updated cvss 5.9

OpenJDK: GCTR counter roll over (Security, 8200332)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 java-1.7.0-openjdk, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-1.7.0-openjdk-src, java-1.8.0-openjdk-src, java-1.7.0-openjdk-demo, java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 java-1.7.0-openjdk, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-1.7.0-openjdk-src, java-1.8.0-openjdk-src, java-1.7.0-openjdk-demo, java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo, +7 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

3.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Oracle Corporation Java

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: Updated Java versions.