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CVE-2018-1890 json

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 8 on the AIX platform uses absolute RPATHs which may facilitate code injection and privilege eleva…

published 2019-03-11 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-12469

cvss
5.6
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 8 on the AIX platform uses absolute RPATHs which may facilitate code injection and privilege elevation by local users. IBM X-Force ID: 152081.

Patch / fix

  • java-1_8_0-ibm SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2 +10 more 1.8.0_sr5.30-30.46.1
  • java-1_8_0-ibm SLE Module for Legacy 15 1.8.0_sr5.30-3.16.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:0617-1SUSE-SU-2019:0585-1

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-2018-1890 updated cvss 7.8

JDK: local privilege escalation via insecure RPATHs

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 java-1.7.1-ibm, java-1.8.0-ibm, java-1.7.1-ibm-src, java-1.8.0-ibm-src, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 java-1.7.1-ibm, java-1.8.0-ibm, java-1.7.1-ibm-src, java-1.8.0-ibm-src, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 java-1.8.0-ibm, java-1.8.0-ibm-src, java-1.8.0-ibm-demo, java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc, java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin, java-1.8.0-ibm-headless, +1 more Red Hat Satellite 5 java-1.8.0-ibm
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.6 CVSS:3.0/A:L/AC:H/AV:L/C:L/I:L/PR:N/S:C/UI:N/E:U/RC:C/RL:O
CNA 3.0 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • IBM WebSphere Application Server Patterns
  • IBM WebSphere Application Server
  • IBM Runtimes for Java Technology

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.