Medium
Security advisory
In Eclipse Openj9 before version 0.32.0, Java 8 & 11 fail to throw the exception captured during bytecode verification when verification is triggered by a MethodHandle invocation, allowing unverified methods to be invoked using MethodHandles.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-41041
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Eclipse Openj9 before version 0.32.0, Java 8 & 11 fail to throw the exception captured during bytecode verification when verification is triggered by a MethodHandle invocation, allowing unverified methods to be invoked using MethodHandles.
osv:CVE-2021-41041
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:55.881656462Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2022-04-27T02:15:38.73+00:00"
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