CVE-2019-17631: Eclipse OPENJ9

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

From Eclipse OpenJ9 0.15 to 0.16, access to diagnostic operations such as causing a GC or creating a diagnostic file are permitted without any privilege checks.

Affected products

• Eclipse OPENJ9: from 0.15.0, up to and including 0.16.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 8.1 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 2019-10-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.