{"id":"CVE-2021-28167","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-28167","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:17:28.017Z","title":"This allows a user to call static methods or access static members without running the class initialization method, and may allow a user to observe uninitialized values.","description":"In Eclipse Openj9 to version 0.25.0, usage of the jdk.internal.reflect.ConstantPool API causes the JVM in some cases to pre-resolve certain constant pool entries. This allows a user to call static methods or access static members without running the class initialization method, and may allow a user to observe uninitialized values.","published":"2021-04-21T18:15:09.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:45:56.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"emo@eclipse.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-909"],"affected":["eclipse/openj9"],"epss":{"score":0.01126,"percentile":0.6613,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.13%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/eclipse/openj9/issues/12016","tags":["Exploit","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"emo@eclipse.org"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/","source":"emo@eclipse.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/eclipse/openj9/issues/12016","tags":["Exploit","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28167","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}