CVE-2021-41041: Eclipse OPENJ9

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Eclipse Openj9 before version 0.32.0, Java 8 & 11 fail to throw the exception captured during bytecode verification when verification is triggered by a MethodHandle invocation, allowing unverified methods to be invoked using MethodHandles.

Affected products

• Eclipse OPENJ9: before 0.32.0 (fixed in 0.32.0)
• Oracle Java SE: version 8 only; version 11 only

Published 2022-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.