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Ubuntu 24.10 : OpenJDK 23 vulnerability (USN-7255-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 214993

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7255-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 23 did not properly handle API access under certain circumstances. An unauthenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to access unauthorized resources and expose sensitive information.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7255-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 214993

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7255-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/5/2025

Updated: 2/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-21502

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-23-jdk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-23-jre-headless, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-23-demo, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-23-jre-zero, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-23-testsupport, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-23-jdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-23-jre, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-23-source

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-21502

USN: 7255-1