Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-36161",
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    "title": "CVE-2021-36161",
    "summary": "Some component in Dubbo will try to print the formated string of the input arguments, which will possibly cause RCE for a maliciously customized bean with special toString method. In the latest version, we fix the toString call in timeout, cache and some other places. Fixed in Apache Dubbo 2.7.13",
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        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r40212261fd5d638074b65f22ac73eebe93ace310c79d4cfcca4863da%40%3Cdev.dubbo.apache.org%3E"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2021-09-09T08:15:28.667+00:00"
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