maven package report

Is org.apache.bcel:bcel safe?

1 known vulnerability, worst severity CRITICAL.

cvss
9.0

how bad it is if exploited, out of 10

epss
3.0%

chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

xyz score
4.0

CyberXYZ composite, out of 10

fig. 01 — GHSA-97xg-phpr-rg8q, the advisory selected below

// advisories

GHSA-97xg-phpr-rg8q

CRITICALCVE-2022-42920

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

Affected
< 6.6.0
Fixed in
6.6.0
Weakness
CWE-787
Published
2022-11-07
Source
github

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// dependencies

0 direct

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// ai model usage

Tracked for PyPI packages. HuggingFace models declare Python dependencies, so maven packages are not covered.

Checked 2026-09-22 at 03:30 UTC. The most recent advisory here was published 2022-11-07. Updated continuously from NVD, GHSA, OSV and CNA feeds.

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