| Name | CVE-2021-28170 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 989259 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| jakarta-el-api (PTS) | bullseye | 4.0.0-2 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid, bookworm, trixie | 5.0.1-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| jakarta-el-api | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | 989259 |
Notes
https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/el-ri/issues/155
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-021-jakarta-el/
Only affects the EL reference implementation which isn't built into the binary packages