CVE-2022-21291: Oracle Corporation Java SE JDK and JRE

Improper access control in Oracle Corporation Java SE JDK and JRE

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.029 · 86th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: oracle) at 19 Jan 2022, 11:23 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Oracle Corporation	Java SE JDK and JRE	affected Oracle Java SE:7u321 affected Oracle Java SE:8u311 affected Oracle Java SE:11.0.13 affected Oracle Java SE:17.0.1 affected Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:20.3.4 affected Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:21.3.0

Identifiers

CVE-2022-21291

CNA

oracle

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-284

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.3	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	CNA (oracle)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.029, the 86th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 19 Jan 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220121-0007/ confirm
www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5057 vendor-advisorydebian
www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5058 vendor-advisorydebian
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2DIN3L6L3SVZK75CKW2GPSU4HIGZR7XG/ vendor-advisoryfedora
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-05 vendor-advisorygentoo

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.