CVE-2017-10198

OpenJDK: incorrect enforcement of certificate path restrictions (Security, 8179998)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.9

CVSS 3.0

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Published · July 18, 2017

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

It was discovered that the Security component of OpenJDK could fail to properly enforce restrictions defined for processing of X.509 certificate chains. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to make Java accept certificate using one of the disabled algorithms.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE not specified