Medium severity · published Nov 15, 2023
CVE-2023-5676
Eclipse OpenJ9 possible infinite busy hang
5.9
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Eclipse OpenJ9 before version 0.41.0, the JVM can be forced into an infinite busy hang on a spinlock or a segmentation fault if a shutdown signal (SIGTERM, SIGINT or SIGHUP) is received before the JVM has finished initializing.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 35% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
OpenJ9 · Eclipse Foundation
before 0.41.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5676
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5676
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/pull/18085
Vendor Advisory
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignement/-/issues/13
security.netapp.com
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241108-0002/
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