Dubbo
CVE-2021-30180
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V4 - API and Web Service HTTP request consistency
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| Impact | CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could manipulate HTTP request interpretation between frontend and backend servers by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
Apache Dubbo prior to 2.7.9 support Tag routing which will enable a customer to route the request to the right server. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Enforce strict HTTP parsing, normalize requests at proxy layer, use HTTP/2 end-to-end, reject ambiguous headers.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 1 package in maven
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as HTTP Request/Response Smuggling (CWE-444), which allows attackers to manipulate HTTP request interpretation between frontend and backend servers. Apache Dubbo prior to 2.7.9 support Tag routing which will enable a customer to route the request to the right server. These rules are used by the customers when making a request in order to find the right endpoint. When parsing these YAML rules, Dubbo customers may enable calling arbitrary constructors. Affected products include: Apache Dubbo. Version information: prior to 2.7.9.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Apache Dubbo prior to 2.7.9 support Tag routing which will enable a customer to route the request to the right server. These rules are used by the customers when making a request in order to find the right endpoint. When parsing these YAML rules, Dubbo customers may enable calling arbitrary constructors.
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Attack Technique
HTTP request smuggling exploits inconsistencies in how front-end and back-end servers parse HTTP message boundaries.
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Apache Dubbo.This issue only affects Apache Dubbo 3.1.5. Rated critic
A deserialization vulnerability existed when decode a malicious package.1.0 through 3.1.10, from 3.2.0 through 3.2.4. Ra
A deserialization vulnerability existed when dubbo generic invoke, which could lead to malicious code execution.7.x vers
A deserialization vulnerability existed in dubbo hessian-lite 3.2.12 and its earlier versions, which could lead to malic
The Dubbo Provider will check the incoming request and the corresponding serialization type of this request meet the con
Some component in Dubbo will try to print the formated string of the input arguments, which will possibly cause RCE for
In Apache Dubbo, users may choose to use the Hessian protocol. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is
Apache Dubbo prior to 2.6.9 and 2.7.9 supports Script routing which will enable a customer to route the request to the r
Apache Dubbo prior to 2.6.9 and 2.7.9 by default supports generic calls to arbitrary methods exposed by provider interfa
Each Apache Dubbo server will set a serialization id to tell the clients which serialization protocol it is working on.
This vulnerability can affect all Dubbo users stay on version 2.7.6 or lower. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this v
Apache Dubbo supports various rules to support configuration override or traffic routing (called routing in Dubbo). Rate
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