ALAS2023-2025-1242

References: CVE-2025-53057  CVE-2025-53066 
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity

Issue Overview:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Security). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 8u461, 8u461-perf, 11.0.28, 17.0.16, 21.0.8, 25; Oracle GraalVM for JDK: 17.0.16 and 21.0.8; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 21.3.15. Difficult to exploit 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 of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all 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-2025-53057)

Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: JAXP). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 8u461, 8u461-perf, 11.0.28, 17.0.16, 21.0.8, 25; Oracle GraalVM for JDK: 17.0.16 and 21.0.8; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 21.3.15. 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 of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all 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-2025-53066)

Issue Correction:
Run dnf update java-17-amazon-corretto --releasever 2023.9.20251027 or dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2025-1242 --releasever 2023.9.20251027 to update your system.
More information on how to update your system can be found on this page: Amazon Linux 2023 documentation

New Packages:

aarch64:
    java-17-amazon-corretto-17.0.17+10-1.amzn2023.1.aarch64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-debugsymbols-17.0.17+10-1.amzn2023.1.aarch64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-devel-17.0.17+10-1.amzn2023.1.aarch64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-headless-17.0.17+10-1.amzn2023.1.aarch64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-javadoc-17.0.17+10-1.amzn2023.1.aarch64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-jmods-17.0.17+10-1.amzn2023.1.aarch64

src:
    java-17-amazon-corretto-17.0.17+10-1.amzn2023.1.src

x86_64:
    java-17-amazon-corretto-17.0.17+10-1.amzn2023.1.x86_64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-debugsymbols-17.0.17+10-1.amzn2023.1.x86_64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-devel-17.0.17+10-1.amzn2023.1.x86_64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-headless-17.0.17+10-1.amzn2023.1.x86_64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-javadoc-17.0.17+10-1.amzn2023.1.x86_64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-jmods-17.0.17+10-1.amzn2023.1.x86_64