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CVE-2019-17631

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-17631 describes a critical vulnerability in Eclipse OpenJ9 versions 0.15 to 0.16, affecting both Eclipse and Red Hat products. It allows unprivileged access to sensitive diagnostic operations, such as triggering garbage collection or creating diagnostic files, without any authentication or authorization checks. With a CVSS score of 9.1 (CRITICAL), this network-exploitable vulnerability presents a high risk of integrity and availability compromise. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0.15.0, <= 0.16.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:openj9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.1CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0207 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 36,821 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.0-1jpp.1.el6_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.0-1jpp.1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.0-3.el8_1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.8Fixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.0-1jpp.1.el6_10
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-17631Moderate

JDK: Unrestricted access to diagnostic operations

Dec 4, 2019

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:4113
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:4115
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0006
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0046
Third Party Advisory
bugs.eclipse.org / bugs/show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory