The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4453-1 advisory.

    Johannes Kuhn discovered that OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled access control contexts. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-14556)

    Philippe Arteau discovered that OpenJDK 8 incorrectly verified names in TLS server's X.509 certificates.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2020-14577)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled exceptions in DerInputStream class and in the     DerValue.equals() method. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2020-14578, CVE-2020-14579)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled image files. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2020-14581)

    Markus Loewe discovered that OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled concurrent access in java.nio.Buffer class. An     attacker could use this issue to bypass sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2020-14583)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled transformation of images. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to bypass sandbox restrictions and insert, edit or obtain sensitive information.
    (CVE-2020-14593)

    Roman Shemyakin discovered that OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled XML files. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to insert, edit or obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2020-14621)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities (USN-4453-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 139373

Version 1.8

Version 1.7

Version 1.8 Aug 29, 2024, 4:23 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408291623
Version 1.7 Oct 21, 2023, 9:06 AM CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2020-14583") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210906