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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-17631

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.

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CVE-2019-17631
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1 Nov 2026, 04:28 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-17631

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 Oct 2019, 18:15 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2019-17631
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-17631",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2019-17631",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-17631",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
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          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:18.705261689Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4115",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0006",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0046",
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429842,
  "published_at": "2019-10-17T18:15:12.813+00:00"
}