CVE-2018-12549: Eclipse OPENJ9

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0.11.0, the OpenJ9 JIT compiler may incorrectly omit a null check on the receiver object of an Unsafe call when accelerating it.

Affected products

• Eclipse OPENJ9: version 0.11.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Satellite: version 5.8 only

Published 2019-02-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.