VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-42920

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability2.81%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-11-07
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Apache Commons BCEL has a number of APIs that would normally only allow changing specific class characteristics. However, due to an out-of-bounds writing issue, these APIs can be used to produce arbitrary bytecode. This could be abused in applications that pass attacker-controllable data to those APIs, giving the attacker more control over the resulting bytecode than otherwise expected. Update to Apache Commons BCEL 6.6.0.

Weakness classification

  • security@apache.org: CWE-787

Primary references