CVE-2021-41041 (GCVE-0-2021-41041)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-27 02:10 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:59
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Summary
In Eclipse Openj9 before version 0.32.0, Java 8 & 11 fail to throw the exception captured during bytecode verification when verification is triggered by a MethodHandle invocation, allowing unverified methods to be invoked using MethodHandles.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/pull/14935 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=579744 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse OpenJ9 |
Affected:
unspecified , < 0.32.0
(custom)
|
guessed |
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