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Arch Linux: Privilege escalation (CVE-2017-3509)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 24, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

It was discovered that the HTTP client implementation in the Networking component of OpenJDK could cache and re-use an NTLM authenticated connection in a different security context. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to make a Java application perform HTTP requests authenticated with credentials of a different user.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

    Title
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