Security advisory
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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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-37579
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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