Bug 1471898 (CVE-2017-10078) - CVE-2017-10078 OpenJDK: Nashorn incompletely blocking access to Java APIs (Scripting, 8171539)
Summary: CVE-2017-10078 OpenJDK: Nashorn incompletely blocking access to Java APIs (Sc...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-10078
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1466515
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-07-17 15:30 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:16 UTC (History)
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It was discovered that the Nashorn JavaScript engine in the Scripting component of OpenJDK could allow scripts to access Java APIs even when access to Java APIs was disabled. An untrusted JavaScript executed by Nashorn could use this flaw to bypass intended restrictions.
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Last Closed: 2017-08-14 10:00:23 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1789 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.8.0-openjdk security update 2017-07-20 21:49:13 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1790 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.8.0-oracle security update 2017-12-14 20:16:58 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2469 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.8.0-ibm security update 2017-08-14 13:48:39 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:3453 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.8.0-ibm security update 2017-12-13 21:48:15 UTC

Description Tomas Hoger 2017-07-17 15:30:50 UTC
It was discovered that the Nashorn JavaScript engine in the Scripting component of OpenJDK could allow JavaScripts to access Java APIs even when access to Java APIs was disabled.  An untrusted JavaScript executed by Nashorn could use this flaw to bypass intended restrictions.

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2017-07-18 19:55:45 UTC
Public now via Oracle CPU July 2017:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html#AppendixJAVA

The issue was fixed in Oracle JDK 8u141.

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2017-07-19 14:27:19 UTC
OpenJDK-8 upstream commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/nashorn/rev/7c09d30a05f1

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2017-07-20 16:19:43 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:1790 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1790

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2017-07-20 17:51:32 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1789 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1789

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-14 09:50:25 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2017:2469 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2469

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-12-13 16:54:05 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 5.8
  Red Hat Satellite 5.8 ELS

Via RHSA-2017:3453 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3453


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