CVE-2021-35564

Published: 20 October 2021

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Keytool). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u311, 8u301, 11.0.12, 17; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.3 and 21.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data. Note: This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability can also be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.3 (Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N).

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that the Keytool component in OpenJDK did not properly handle certificates with validity ending dates in the far future. An attacker could use this to specially craft a certificate that when imported could corrupt a keystore.

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References

• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5202-1
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-35564
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian