GHSA-v6w3-2prq-h95f

Improper Input Validation in Jakarta Expression Language

At a glance

Published: 2021-10-06 17:48 UTC
Updated: 2025-07-01 17:04 UTC
CVE: CVE-2021-28170
CVSS_V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Description

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.

Affected packages

Package	Versions
Maven · com.sun.el:el-ri	introduced 0, fixed 3.0.4
Maven · org.glassfish:jakarta.el	introduced 0, fixed 3.0.4
Maven · org.glassfish:javax.el	introduced 0, last affected 3.0.1-b12

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28170 ADVISORY
https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/el-ri/issues/155 WEB
https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/el-ri/pull/160/commits/b6a3943ac5fba71cbc6719f092e319caa747855b WEB
https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/el-ri PACKAGE
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGGLASSFISH-1297098 WEB
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGGLASSFISH-2841368 WEB
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-021-jakarta-el ADVISORY
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html WEB

Sources

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