mchange-commons-java, a library that provides Java utilities, includes code that mirrors early implementations of JNDI functionality, including support for remote factoryClassLocation values, by which code can be downloaded and invoked within a running application. If an attacker can provoke an application to read a maliciously crafted jaxax.naming.Reference or serialized object, they can provoke the download and execution of malicious code. Implementations of this functionality within the JDK were disabled by default behind a System property that defaults to false, com.sun.jndi.ldap.object.trustURLCodebase. However, since mchange-commons-java includes an independent implementation of JNDI derefencing, libraries (such as c3p0) that resolve references via that implementation could be provoked to download and execute malicious code even after the JDK was hardened. Mirroring the JDK patch, mchange-commons-java's JNDI functionality is gated by configuration parameters that default to restrictive values starting in version 0.4.0. No known workarounds are available. Versions prior to 0.4.0 should be avoided on application CLASSPATHs.
CVE-2026-27727
This critical-severity CVE scores 9.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit-prediction score not yet available (the EPSS model rescores nightly; freshly-published CVEs typically appear within 48 hours). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8(low)
- EPSS
- 52.5%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
February 25, 2026
Last Modified
July 2, 2026
Advisory Details (11)
Auto-updated Jul 3, 2026Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18059Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18055Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18054c3p0-v0.14.1 - JDBC3 Connection and Statement Pooling - Documentation
https://www.mchange.com/projects/c3p0/#security-notec3p0-v0.14.1 - JDBC3 Connection and Statement Pooling - Documentation
https://www.mchange.com/projects/c3p0/#configuring_securityc3p0, you little rascal | MOGWAI LABS
https://mogwailabs.de/en/blog/2025/02/c3p0-you-little-rascalmchange-commons-java prior to v0.4.0 can be dangerously abused to download and execute malicious code · Advisory · swaldman/mchange-commons-java · GitHub
https://github.com/swaldman/mchange-commons-java/security/advisories/GHSA-m2cm-222f-qw44Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-27727(8)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:34365Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Satellite 6.19.2 Async Update
- RHSA-2026:18054Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.6 security update
- RHSA-2026:18055Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.6 security update
- RHSA-2026:18059Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.6 security update
- RHSA-2026:14874Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Satellite 6.16.8 Async Update
- RHSA-2026:14873Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Satellite 6.17.8 Async Update
- RHSA-2026:4285Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat build of Debezium 3.2.7 release
- RHSA-2026:3890Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Build of Apache Camel 4.14.4 for Spring Boot release.
Patch Availability(4)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | eap8-hibernate-0:6.6.48-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | 2026-05-18 | redhat |
| redhat | mchange-commons-java | 2026-05-18 | redhat |
| redhat | eap8-hibernate-0:6.6.48-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap | 2026-05-18 | redhat |
| redhat | candlepin-0:4.4.25-1.el9sat | 2026-05-07 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| com.mchange:mchange-commons-java | 0.2.1-RELEASE ... 0.3.2 (31 versions) | 0.4.0 | — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 14× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 04:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-30 04:36 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-06-30 04:31 UTCNVD updatefirst tracked
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