CVE-2021-2163

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 5.3
EPSS
EPSS 3.57 % · percentile 89 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
oracle
NVD status
Modified

Description

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Libraries). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u291, 8u281, 11.0.10, 16; Java SE Embedded: 8u281; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 19.3.5, 20.3.1.2 and 21.0.0.2. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Java SE Embedded, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Java SE, Java SE Embedded, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data. Note: This vulnerability applies to Java deployments that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.3 (Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Noracle
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · secalert_us@oracle.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0LOW 2.6AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Oracle Corporation · Java SE JDK and JREaffected Java SE:7u291 ; affected Java SE:8u281 ; affected Java SE:11.0.10 ; affected Java SE:16 ; affected Java SE Embedded:8u281 ; affected Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:19.3.5

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD