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CVE-2021-28170

jakarta-el: ELParserTokenManager enables invalid EL expressions to be evaluate

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · April 1, 2021

Updated · November 4, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation