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  - Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of     Oracle Java SE (component: Networking). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 8u471,     8u471-b50, 8u471-perf, 11.0.29, 17.0.17, 21.0.9, 25.0.1; Oracle GraalVM for JDK: 17.0.17 and 21.0.9;
    Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 21.3.16. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated     attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK,     Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than     the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM     Enterprise Edition, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful     attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle     Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data as well as unauthorized     read access to a subset of Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition     accessible data. Note: This vulnerability can be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g.,     through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. This vulnerability also applies to Java     deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets,     that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox     for security. (CVE-2026-21933)

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Version 1.5 Feb 9, 2026, 4:07 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 6.4) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N") Plugin Feed: 202602091607
Version 1.4 Feb 6, 2026, 8:56 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 4.3) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202602060856
Version 1.3 Feb 5, 2026, 4:41 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 6.4) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N") Plugin Feed: 202602051641
Version 1.2 Feb 4, 2026, 2:23 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202602041423
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