CVE-2020-27221
CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: January 21, 2021 at 04:55 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:08 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOpenJ9
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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (1)
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=569763CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-121CWE-787
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