CVE-2026-21925 is a difficult-to-exploit vulnerability in the RMI component of Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, and Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. An unauthenticated network attacker can bypass security controls to read or modify portions of data accessible to the affected runtime. Affected supported versions are Oracle Java SE 8u471, 8u471-b50, 8u471-perf, 11.0.29, 17.0.17, 21.0.9, and 25.0.1; Oracle GraalVM for JDK 17.0.17 and 21.0.9; and Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition 21.3.16. Exploitation can occur through services supplying data to RMI component APIs. The vulnerability also affects client deployments that execute untrusted sandboxed Java Web Start applications or Java applets and rely on the Java sandbox for security. The underlying implementation defect and vulnerable function are not specified.
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