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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-37579

The Dubbo Provider will check the incoming request and the corresponding serialization type of this request meet the configuration set by the server. But there's an exception that the attacker can use to skip the security check (when enabled) and reaching a deserialization operation with native java serialization. Apache Dubbo 2.7.13, 3.0.2 fixed this issue by quickly fail when any unrecognized request was found.

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1 Nov 2026, 09:19 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-37579

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Sept 2021, 08:15 UTC

The Dubbo Provider will check the incoming request and the corresponding serialization type of this request meet the configuration set by the server. But there's an exception that the attacker can use to skip the security check (when enabled) and reaching a deserialization operation with native java serialization. Apache Dubbo 2.7.13, 3.0.2 fixed this issue by quickly fail when any unrecognized request was found.

osv:CVE-2021-37579
Complete source record
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