Vulnerability · Published Apr 21, 2021 · Assigned by eclipse

CVE-2021-28167

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Eclipse OpenJ9 from The Eclipse Foundation. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 66% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 33.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In Eclipse Openj9 to version 0.25.0, usage of the jdk.internal.reflect.ConstantPool API causes the JVM in some cases to pre-resolve certain constant pool entries. This allows a user to call static methods or access static members without running the class initialization method, and may allow a user to observe uninitialized values.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse OpenJ9 unspecified – through 0.25.0

Weakness: CWE-909

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