Security advisory

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  "id": "fbf478eb158eac7eafadcbde8a327275c4f33414c331dbeab515c52bfd6b57c2",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-28170",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-28170",
    "summary": "In the Jakarta Expression Language implementation 3.0.3 and earlier, a bug in the ELParserTokenManager enables invalid EL expressions to be evaluated as if they were valid.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-28170",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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        "GHSA-v6w3-2prq-h95f"
      ],
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/jakartaee/expression-language",
              "type": "GIT",
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                {
                  "introduced": "0"
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                {
                  "last_affected": "f9f0b3bfb4067c1db148e3dbd68da3df6615b90e"
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              ],
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                        "last_affected": "3.0.3"
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          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.0.3-RI-COMB-RELEASE",
            "initial-contribution"
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          }
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              "repo": "https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus",
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                {
                  "fixed": "62bc0131470927666affac57e77a728bcf487621"
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                      {
                        "fixed": "2.3.0"
                      }
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                  }
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            }
          ],
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:47:45.016410056Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/el-ri/issues/155",
        "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html",
        "https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-021-jakarta-el/"
      ],
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              "cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_policy:1.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
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            "extracted_events": [
              {
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                  {
                    "introduced": "1.14.0"
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              {
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                    "introduced": "14.1.1.0.0"
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    },
    "related_cves": [
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        "value": "CVE-2021-28170",
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 441525,
  "published_at": "2021-05-26T22:15:07.98+00:00"
}