What is CVE-2021-32834?

CVE-2021-32834 is a high-severity vulnerability in Eclipse Keti, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 8.2/10. Published 2021-09-09.

How severe is CVE-2021-32834?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.2 out of 10.

RCE in Eclipse Keti

CVE-2021-32834

Eclipse Keti is a service that was designed to protect RESTfuls API using Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC). In Keti a user able to create Policy Sets can run arbitrary code by sending malicious Groovy scripts which will escape the configured Groovy sandbox. This vulnerability is known to exist in the latest commit at the time of writing this CVE (commit a1c8dbe). For more details see the referenced GHSL-2021-063.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

Published 2021-09-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (59.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 60th percentile — 59.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Eclipse Keti — versions <= a1c8dbe

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-063-eclipse-keti/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-32834?: CVE-2021-32834 is a high-severity vulnerability in Eclipse Keti, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 8.2/10. Published 2021-09-09.
How severe is CVE-2021-32834?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.2 out of 10.