High severity · published May 9, 2025
CVE-2025-4447
Buffer Overflow in Eclipse OpenJ9
7.8
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Eclipse OpenJ9 versions up to 0.51, when used with OpenJDK version 8 a stack based buffer overflow can be caused by modifying a file on disk that is read when the JVM starts.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 13% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
OpenJ9 · Eclipse Foundation
0.8.0 through 0.49.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4447
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4447
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/pull/21762
Issue Tracking
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignement/-/issues/61
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