Detecting Jakarta Expression Language injections with CodeQL

How to use CodeQL to find EL injections and fix them

Artem Smotrakov
InfoSec Write-ups
Published in
4 min readApr 14, 2021

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Recently I wrote a post about detecting JEXL injections with CodeQL. JEXL is a library that provides an interpreter for a simple expression language (EL). This time, I’ll talk about injections with Jakarta Expression Language, and how they can be found with CodeQL.

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