CVE-2021-2161: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Libraries). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u291, 8u281, 11.0.10, 16; Java SE Embedded: 8u281; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 19.3.5, 20.3.1.2 and 21.0.0.2. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Java SE Embedded, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Java SE, Java SE Embedded, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data. Note: This vulnerability applies to Java deployments that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. It can also be exploited by supplying untrusted data to APIs in the specified Component. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.9 (Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
  • Fedoraproject Fedora: version 32 only; version 33 only; version 34 only
  • McAfee Epolicy Orchestrator: before 5.10.0 (fixed in 5.10.0); version 5.10.0 only
  • Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager: affected versions not specified
  • Netapp Hci Compute Node: affected versions not specified
  • Netapp Hci Management Node: affected versions not specified
  • Netapp Hci Storage Node: affected versions not specified
  • Netapp Solidfire: affected versions not specified
  • Oracle Graalvm: version 19.3.5 only; version 20.3.1.2 only; version 21.0.0.2 only
  • Oracle JDK: version 1.7.0 only; version 1.8.0 only; version 11.0.10 only; version 16.0.0 only
  • Oracle JRE: version 1.8.0 only
  • Oracle Openjdk: from 11, up to and including 11.0.10; from 13, up to and including 13.0.6; from 15, up to and including 15.0.2; version 7 only; version 8 only; version 16 only

Published 2021-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.