CVE-2018-1517: IBM Software Development Kit

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw in the java.math component in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 may allow an attacker to inflict a denial-of-service attack with specially crafted String data. IBM X-Force ID: 141681.

Affected products

• IBM Software Development Kit: version 6 only; version 6.0 only; version 6r1 only; version 7 only; version 7.0 only; version 7r1 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 5.6 only; version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2018-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.