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CVE-2019-2949

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-2949 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the Kerberos component of Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded, affecting versions 7u231, 8u221, 11.0.4, and 13. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this over the network, even though it is difficult to do so. Successful exploitation can lead to unauthorized access to critical or all accessible data, particularly in client-side Java deployments running untrusted code. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.7.0:update231:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.8.0:update221:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:11.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:13.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:1.7.0:update231:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0360 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.232.b09-1.el6_10
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.10-1jpp.1.el6_10
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-11-openjdk-1:11.0.5.10-0.el7_7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.232.b09-0.el7_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.10-1jpp.1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.232.b09-0.el8_0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: java-11-openjdk-1:11.0.5.10-0.el8_0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.10-1.el8_2
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-2949Important

OpenJDK: Improper handling of Kerberos proxy credentials (Kerberos, 8220302)

Oct 15, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00064.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00066.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00031.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3134
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3135
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3136
Third Party Advisory
kc.mcafee.com / corporate/index
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00005.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Oct/27
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Oct/31
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20191017-0001
Third Party Advisory
support.f5.com / csp/article/K54213762
usn.ubuntu.com / 4223-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4546
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4548
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
PatchVendor Advisory