GHSA-563f-2v9h-x957

GHSA-563f-2v9h-x957 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 2, 2022

Argument injection vulnerability in the URI handler in (a) Java NPAPI plugin and (b) Java Deployment Toolkit in Java 6 Update 10, 19, and other versions, when running on Windows and possibly on Linux, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) -J or (2) -XXaltjvm argument to javaws.exe, which is processed by the launch method. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Fixed versions

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Package	Ecosystem	Fixed in
openjdk-17-openj9	Chainguard	0.53.0-r0
openjdk-11-openj9	Chainguard	0.53.0-r0
openjdk-25-openj9	Chainguard	0.59.0-r1
openjdk-8-openj9	Chainguard	0.53.0-r1
openjdk-21-openj9	Chainguard	0.48.0-r2
openjdk-26-openj9	Chainguard	0.59.0-r1

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

9.300000190734863

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
chainguard	openjdk-17-openj9	0
chainguard	openjdk-11-openj9	0
chainguard	openjdk-25-openj9	0
chainguard	openjdk-8-openj9	0
chainguard	openjdk-21-openj9	0
chainguard	openjdk-26-openj9	0

Timeline

May 2, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory

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