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CVE-2019-2977

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-2977 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the Hotspot component of Oracle Java SE versions 11.0.4 and 13. It allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to achieve partial denial of service and unauthorized read access to a subset of Java SE data. This vulnerability primarily impacts client-side Java deployments running untrusted code within a sandbox. The CVSS 3.0 Base Score is 4.8, indicating a medium severity. Exploitation is difficult, requiring network access via multiple protocols, and does not require user interaction. The potential impact is limited to partial data confidentiality and partial availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE. It is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:11.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:13.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:active_iq_unified_manager:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
2.5
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0262 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (3)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-11-openjdk-1:11.0.5.10-0.el7_7
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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-2977Moderate

OpenJDK: Out of bounds access in optimized String indexof implementation (Hotspot, 8224062)

Oct 15, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00064.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00066.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3135
Third Party Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Oct/31
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20191017-0001
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4223-1
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4546
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
PatchVendor Advisory