CVE-2018-12539
In Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0.8, users other than the process owner may be able to use Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.49%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 57% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0.8, users other than the process owner may be able to use Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or IBM JVM on the same machine and use Attach API operations, which includes the ability to execute untrusted native code. Attach API is enabled by default on Windows, Linux and AIX JVMs and can be disabled using the command line option -Dcom.ibm.tools.attach.enable=no.
Timeline
ID reserved
By eclipse
- 57 days later
· 57 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.49% · top 57% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
The Eclipse Foundation · Eclipse OpenJ9
- affected 0.8
References
References10
- RHSA-2018:2713 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2575 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2576 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2568 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2569 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2712 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1041765 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 105126 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=534589 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-4504 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-12539)Record last updated .