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medium 5.9

CVE-2018-10237 json

Denial of Service in Google Guava

published 2018-04-26 8 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-mvr2-9pj6-7w5j , EUVD-2020-0502

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.4%
EPSS 8.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Unbounded memory allocation in Google Guava 11.0 through 24.x before 24.1.1 allows remote attackers to conduct denial of service attacks against servers that depend on this library and deserialize attacker-provided data, because the AtomicDoubleArray class (when serialized with Java serialization) and the CompoundOrdering class (when serialized with GWT serialization) perform eager allocation without appropriate checks on what a client has sent and whether the data size is reasonable.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.google.guava:guava 24.1.1-android
  • google guava 24.1.1
  • guava-libraries Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 29.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10237

  • v8 satellite capsule 6.4 1:3.14.5.10-19.el7sat
  • tfm satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 4.0-3.el7sat
  • kobo satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 0.5.1-1.el7sat
  • pulp satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2.16.4.1-1.el7sat
  • gofer satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2.12.1-1.el7sat
  • ostree satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2017.1-2.atomic.el7
  • SOAPpy satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 0.11.6-17.el7
  • foreman satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 1.18.0.37-1.el7sat

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2927RHSA-2018:2741RHSA-2018:2743RHSA-2018:2742RHSA-2018:2598RHSA-2018:2424

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-10237 updated cvss 5.9

guava: Unbounded memory allocation in AtomicDoubleArray and CompoundOrdering classes allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service

  • Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 11 guava guava
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 guava guava
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 guava, guava-javadoc Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) Operational Tools opendaylight Red Hat Fuse 7 guava guava
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 guava guava Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 guava guava
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 guava guava Red Hat JBoss Fuse Integration Service 2 guava guava Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 guava guava Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 guava guava Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes guava guava Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) opendaylight
    +5 more products
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) opendaylight Red Hat Software Collections rh-maven35-guava, rh-eclipse46-guava, rh-java-common-guava, rh-maven35-guava-javadoc, rh-eclipse46-guava-javadoc, rh-java-common-guava-javadoc
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2425
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2740
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 5 Server hornetq 2.3.25-27.SP28_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, jbossweb 7.5.29-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, xerces-j2-eap6 2.9.1-19.redhat_8.1.ep6.el5, guava-libraries 13.0.1-5.redhat_3.1.ep6.el5, codehaus-jackson 1.9.9-14.redhat_7.1.ep6.el5, jboss-vfs2 3.2.13-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, +83 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2742
show 12 more
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6 Server hornetq 2.3.25-27.SP28_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, jbossweb 7.5.29-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, xerces-j2-eap6 2.9.1-19.redhat_8.1.ep6.el6, guava-libraries 13.0.1-5.redhat_3.1.ep6.el6, codehaus-jackson 1.9.9-14.redhat_7.1.ep6.el6, jboss-vfs2 3.2.13-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, +83 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2743
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 7 Server hornetq 2.3.25-27.SP28_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, jbossweb 7.5.29-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, xerces-j2-eap6 2.9.1-19.redhat_8.1.ep6.el7, guava-libraries 13.0.1-5.redhat_3.1.ep6.el7, codehaus-jackson 1.9.9-14.redhat_7.1.ep6.el7, jboss-vfs2 3.2.13-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, +83 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2741
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6 Server eap7-guava 25.0.0-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-wildfly 7.1.4-1.GA_redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-jberet 1.2.6-2.Final_redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-bouncycastle 1.56.0-5.redhat_3.1.ep7.el6, eap7-undertow 1.4.18-7.SP8_redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-narayana 5.5.32-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, +101 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2423
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-guava 25.0.0-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-wildfly 7.1.4-1.GA_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-jberet 1.2.6-2.Final_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-bouncycastle 1.56.0-5.redhat_3.1.ep7.el7, eap7-undertow 1.4.18-7.SP8_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-narayana 5.5.32-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, +101 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2424
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Continuous Delivery
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:2562
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/ose-logging-elasticsearch5 v3.11.153-2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:3149
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1 openshift4/ose-logging-elasticsearch5 v4.1.18-201909201915
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:2858
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 opendaylight 8.3.0-3.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2598
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.4 tfm 4.0-3.el7sat, kobo 0.5.1-1.el7sat, SOAPpy 0.11.6-17.el7, candlepin 2.4.8-1.el7, gofer 2.12.1-1.el7sat, liquibase 3.1.0-1.el7, +383 more Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.4 tfm 4.0-3.el7sat, kobo 0.5.1-1.el7sat, SOAPpy 0.11.6-17.el7, gofer 2.12.1-1.el7sat, katello 3.7.0-8.el7sat, pulp 2.16.4.1-1.el7sat, +217 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2927
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2.4 zip
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2428
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7 rhvm-appliance 4.2-20180828.0.el7 Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts rhvm-appliance 4.2-20180828.0.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2643
  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 guava guava Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 guava, guava guava, guava-javadoc, guava-testlib Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 guava guava Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 guava guava Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 guava guava Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 guava
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

4 more not affected in the full advisory

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Exploit prediction

8.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.google.guava:guava
>=11.0, <24.1.1-android
24.1.1-android
maven com.google.guava:guava-jdk5
<=17.0
 no fix listed
maven com.googlecode.guava-osgi:guava-osgi
<=11.0.1
 no fix listed
maven de.mhus.ports:vaadin-shared-deps
<=7.4.0
 no fix listed
maven org.hudsonci.lib.guava:guava
<=14.0.1-h-3
 no fix listed
maven org.sonatype.sisu:sisu-guava
1 listed version
 no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
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References

Sources

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