CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5597

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Oct 25, 2016 | Modified: May 13, 2022
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
2.6 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V3
5.3 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u121, 7u111, 8u102; and Java SE Embedded 8u101 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via vectors related to Networking.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Jdk Oracle 1.6.0-update121 (including) 1.6.0-update121 (including)
Jdk Oracle 1.7.0-update111 (including) 1.7.0-update111 (including)
Jdk Oracle 1.8.0-update101 (including) 1.8.0-update101 (including)
Jdk Oracle 1.8.0-update102 (including) 1.8.0-update102 (including)
Jre Oracle 1.6.0-update121 (including) 1.6.0-update121 (including)
Jre Oracle 1.7.0-update111 (including) 1.7.0-update111 (including)
Jre Oracle 1.8.0-update101 (including) 1.8.0-update101 (including)
Jre Oracle 1.8.0-update102 (including) 1.8.0-update102 (including)
Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.121-1jpp.1.el5_11 *
Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.131-1jpp.1.el5_11 *
Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat java-1.8.0-oracle-1:1.8.0.111-1jpp.4.el6_8 *
Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.121-1jpp.1.el6_8 *
Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.131-1jpp.1.el6_8 *
Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat java-1.8.0-oracle-1:1.8.0.111-1jpp.4.el7 *
Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.121-1jpp.1.el7 *
Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.131-1jpp.1.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.121-2.6.8.1.el5_11 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.41-1.13.13.1.el5_11 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary RedHat java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.9.60-1jpp.1.el5_11 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary RedHat java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.35-1jpp.1.el5_11 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.111-0.b15.el6_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.121-2.6.8.1.el6_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.41-1.13.13.1.el6_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary RedHat java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.3.20-1jpp.1.el6_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary RedHat java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.60-1jpp.1.el6_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary RedHat java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.35-1jpp.1.el6_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.111-1.b15.el7_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.121-2.6.8.0.el7_3 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.41-1.13.13.1.el7_3 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary RedHat java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.3.20-1jpp.1.el7_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary RedHat java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.60-1jpp.1.el7_2 *
Red Hat Satellite 5.6 RedHat java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.4.1-1jpp.1.el6_8 *
Red Hat Satellite 5.7 RedHat java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.4.1-1jpp.1.el6_8 *
Openjdk-6 Ubuntu precise *
Openjdk-6 Ubuntu trusty *
Openjdk-7 Ubuntu precise *
Openjdk-7 Ubuntu trusty *
Openjdk-8 Ubuntu xenial *
Openjdk-8 Ubuntu yakkety *

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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