CVE-2023-21986
Vulnerability in the Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Native Image). Supported versions that are…
- 5.7MediumCVSS base score
- 0.28%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 79% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Vulnerability in the Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Native Image). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.9, 21.3.5 and 22.3.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition executes to compromise Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. While the vulnerability is in Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.7 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L).
Timeline
ID reserved
By oracle
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 17 months later
· 17 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| oracleCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.28% · top 79% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.7.
Affected products
Oracle Corporation · GraalVM Enterprise Edition
- affected Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:20.3.9
- affected Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:21.3.5
- affected Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition:22.3.1
References
References1
- Oracle Advisory (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_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-2023-26151 (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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