Security advisory

{
  "id": "bd8d34a16cee05f121e80780b9ae81a1ebbe20058f9f4ff15d6e992c5e3fe88a",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-28167",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-28167",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-28167",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-28167",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2021-28167"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "022d65424fab41e054ae9834822414cc5334f5bc"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:openj9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.25.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "openj9-0.25.0",
            "openj9-0.25.0-m3",
            "openj9-0.25.0-m2",
            "openj9-0.25.0-m1",
            "openj9-0.24.0-m1",
            "openj9-0.23.0-m1",
            "openj9-0.22.0-m1",
            "openj9-0.21.0-m1",
            "openj9-0.20.0-m1",
            "openj9-0.19.0-m1",
            "openj9-0.18.0-m1",
            "openj9-0.17.0-m1",
            "openj9-0.16.0-m1",
            "openj9-0.12.0-rc1",
            "openj9-0.12.0-m2",
            "openj9-0.12.0-m1",
            "openj9-0.11.0-rc2",
            "openj9-0.11.0",
            "openj9-0.11.0-rc1",
            "openj9-0.10.0-rc1",
            "openj9-0.9.0-rc1",
            "openj9-0.8.0-rc2",
            "openj9-0.8.0",
            "openj9-0.8.0-rc1",
            "openj9-0.0RC2",
            "openj9-0.0",
            "openj9-0.0M1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-28167.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:41.745562159Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/",
        "https://github.com/eclipse/openj9/issues/12016"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-28167",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384510,
  "published_at": "2021-04-21T18:15:08.793+00:00"
}