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high 7.8

CVE-2019-11771 json

AIX builds of Eclipse OpenJ9 before 0.15.0 contain unused RPATHs which may facilitate code injection and privilege elevation by local users.

published 2019-07-17 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-3439

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

AIX builds of Eclipse OpenJ9 before 0.15.0 contain unused RPATHs which may facilitate code injection and privilege elevation by local users.

Patch / fix

  • The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse OpenJ9 0.15.0
  • java-1_7_0-ibm SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 1.7.0_sr10.50-65.42.1
  • java-1_8_0-ibm SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3 +17 more 1.8.0_sr5.40-30.54.1
  • java-1_7_1-ibm SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3 +17 more 1.7.1_sr4.50-38.41.1
  • java-1_8_0-ibm SLE Module for Legacy 15 SP1, SLE Module for Legacy 15 1.8.0_sr5.40-3.24.1
  • java-1_7_1-ibm SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 1.7.1_sr4.50-26.44.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:14188-1SUSE-SU-2019:2371-1SUSE-SU-2019:2336-1SUSE-SU-2019:2291-1SUSE-SU-2019:14160-1

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-2019-11771 updated cvss 7.8

JDK: Insecure RPATH in OpenJ9 on AIX

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 java-1.7.1-ibm, java-1.8.0-ibm, java-1.7.1-ibm-src, java-1.8.0-ibm-src, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 java-1.7.1-ibm, java-1.8.0-ibm, java-1.7.1-ibm-src, java-1.8.0-ibm-src, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 java-1.8.0-ibm, java-1.8.0-ibm-src, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo, java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc, java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin, java-1.8.0-ibm-headless, +1 more Red Hat Satellite 5 java-1.8.0-ibm
    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

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse OpenJ9

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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