CVE-2021-32834: Arbitrary Groovy script evaluation in Eclipse Keti

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-09-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Eclipse Keti is a service that was designed to protect RESTfuls API using Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC). In Keti a user able to create Policy Sets can run arbitrary code by sending malicious Groovy scripts which will escape the configured Groovy sandbox. This vulnerability is known to exist in the latest commit at the time of writing this CVE (commit a1c8dbe). For more details see the referenced GHSL-2021-063.

Affected products

eclipse keti: all versions

References

https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-063-eclipse-keti/
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-063-eclipse-keti/

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