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Uncaught Exception Affecting openjdk-jre package, versions [1.8.0,1.8.0_251) [11.0.0,11.0.7) [14.0.0,14.0.1)

0.0
low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.14% (49th percentile)
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NVD
3.7 low
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Red Hat
3.7 low
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SUSE
3.7 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UPSTREAM-OPENJDKJRE-565808
  • published 16 Apr 2020
  • disclosed 14 Apr 2020
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 14 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-2755 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-248 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade openjdk-jre to version 8.0.251, 11.0.7, 14.0.1 or higher.

Overview

openjdk-jre is a free and open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE).

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncaught Exception in the Nashorn JavaScript engine in the Scripting component of OpenJDK. The state machine of the regular expression Parser did not correctly handle empty string nodes in certain cases, which could cause an unexpected exception to be raised when processing a specially crafted regular expression.

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