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CVE-2021-41041

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-252

Description

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.

Affected products

• The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse OpenJ9: before 0.32.0 — fixed in 0.32.0
• Oracle Java SE: 8, 11

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse OpenJ9 0.32.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=579744
• https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/pull/14935
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=579744
• https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/pull/14935

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