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    "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/39986?format=api",
    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-fnav-wnvc-nfdb",
    "summary": "Code Injection\nJBoss RichFaces allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject expression language (EL) expressions and execute arbitrary Java code.",
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