CVE-2026-16440

State: Published
Severity: 5.7 Medium
Published: Aug 19, 2026
Updated: Aug 19, 2026
Reserved: Jul 21, 2026

Description

In Eclipse OpenJ9 versions up to 0.60, a crafted .class file with deeply nested annotations causes a segmentation fault.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.7 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L	eclipse

Weaknesses

CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Eclipse OpenJ9Eclipse Foundation	0.8.0 to before 0.60Affected

References

https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/security/advisories/GHSA-ch6r-v7rg-4jqx
https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/pull/24572

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