CVE-2019-2745: Medium severity Oracle JDK vulnerability

The Elliptic Curve (EC) cryptography in the Security component of OpenJDK was modernized to use formulas that are more efficient, easier to implement, and offer greater resiliency against side-channel attacks (timing or cache).

For more detailed information, refer to upstream bug:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8208698

Upstream commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/752e57845ad2

— Red Hat

Vulnerability in the Java SE component of Oracle Java SE (subcomponent: Security). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u221, 8u212 and 11.0.3. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Java SE executes to compromise Java SE. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Java SE accessible data. Note: This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets (in Java SE 8), that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability can also be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.1 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

— Launchpad