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CVE-2023-5676

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-5676 describes a vulnerability in Eclipse OpenJ9 versions prior to 0.41.0, where receiving a shutdown signal during JVM initialization can lead to an infinite busy hang or a segmentation fault. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.9) has a network attack vector with high attack complexity, potentially resulting in a denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0, < 0.41.0CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:openj9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 0.41.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:openj9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.5
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 4th 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)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.8.15-1jpp.1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.8.15-1.el8_9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-5676Moderate

JDK: Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM denial of service

Nov 15, 2023

References

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20241108-0002
github.com / eclipse-openj9/openj9/pull/18085
Issue TrackingPatch
gitlab.eclipse.org / security/cve-assignement/-/issues/13
Vendor Advisory