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CVE record · CVE-2022-21540

Use after free in Oracle Corporation Java SE JDK and JRE

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.042 · 90th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: oracle) at 19 Jul 2022, 00:00 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
VendorProductVersions
Oracle Corporation Java SE JDK and JRE
  • affected Oracle Java SE:7u343
  • affected Oracle Java SE:8u333
  • affected Oracle Java SE:11.0.15.1
  • affected Oracle Java SE:17.0.3.1
  • affected Oracle Java SE:18.0.1.1
  • affected Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:20.3.6
  • affected Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:21.3.2
  • affected Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:22.1.0
Identifiers
CVE-2022-21540
CNA
oracle
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-416
Tags
Published
19 Jul 2022
Updated
27 May 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.3 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CNA (oracle)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.042, the 90th 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 Jul 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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