CVE-2020-27221
highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.016 · 75 %ileDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
In Eclipse OpenJ9 up to and including version 0.23, there is potential for a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8
weaknesses
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affected products (12)
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- IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environmentsall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:tivoli_monitoring:::for_virtual_environments
advisories (1)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- WID-SEC-W-2023-0016IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-01-03csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in IBM Tivoli Monitoring ausnutzen, um die Kontrolle über das System zu erlangen, vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen, einen Denial of Service Zustand herbeizuführen, sowie weitere nicht spezifizierte Auswirkungen zu ereichen.
also known as (4)
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sources
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references (75)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-27221cnnvd
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=569763cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27221cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161661/Red-Hat-Security-Advisory-2021-0717-01.htmlcnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161669/Red-Hat-Security-Advisory-2021-0736-01.htmlcnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Eclipse-OpenJ9-buffer-overflow-via-UTF-8-Characters-Encoding-34587cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2021.0562cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2021.0618cnnvd
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