Vulnerabilities / CVE-2021-30179

critical

CVE-2021-30179

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Apache Dubbo

Published Modified CWE 502
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA.

Description

Apache Dubbo prior to 2.6.9 and 2.7.9 by default supports generic calls to arbitrary methods exposed by provider interfaces. These invocations are handled by the GenericFilter which will find the service and method specified in the first arguments of the invocation and use the Java Reflection API to make the final call. The signature for the $invoke or $invokeAsync methods is Ljava/lang/String;[Ljava/lang/String;[Ljava/lang/Object; where the first argument is the name of the method to invoke, the second one is an array with the parameter types for the method being invoked and the third one is an array with the actual call arguments. In addition, the caller also needs to set an RPC attachment specifying that the call is a generic call and how to decode the arguments. The possible values are: - true - raw.return - nativejava - bean - protobuf-json An attacker can control this RPC attachment and set it to nativejava to force the java deserialization of the byte array located in the third argument.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavencom.alibaba:dubbo, org.apache.dubbo:dubbo2.6.9 and 1 more
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SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavencom.alibaba:dubbo2.6.9
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.dubbo:dubbo2.7.10

References

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