ASM 7.1 does not support JDK 17 – its ClassReader class will reject bytes with a classfile major version > JDK 13. So upgrade to 9.1, which will accept the SE 17 classfile version.

The uses of ASM are webservices and the transformer to Hibernate 5.1. For WS, I see that CXF's pom uses ASM 9.1.

https://gitlab.ow2.org/asm/asm/-/compare/ASM_7_1...ASM_9_1