The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5388-2 advisory.

    It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly verified ECDSA signatures. An attacker could use this issue to     bypass the signature verification process. (CVE-2022-21449)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly limited memory when compiling a specially crafted XPath     expression. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21426)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled converting certain object arguments into their textual     representations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21434)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly validated the encoded length of certain object identifiers. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21443)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly validated certain paths. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to bypass the secure validation feature and expose sensitive information in XML files.
    (CVE-2022-21476)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly parsed certain URI strings. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to make applications accept invalid of malformed URI strings. (CVE-2022-21496)

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.

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : OpenJDK vulnerabilities (USN-5388-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 160205

Version 1.8

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Version 1.8 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 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: 202408281943
Version 1.7 Oct 16, 2023, 9:38 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310162138
Version 1.6 Jul 11, 2023, 1:48 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202307110148
Version 1.6 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.5 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901