CVE-2016-6814

CRITICAL

Apache Groovy 1.7.0-2.4.7 - Remote Code Execution via Untrusted Data Deserialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

When an application with unsupported Codehaus versions of Groovy from 1.7.0 to 2.4.3, Apache Groovy 2.4.4 to 2.4.7 on classpath uses standard Java serialization mechanisms, e.g. to communicate between servers or to store local data, it was possible for an attacker to bake a special serialized object that will execute code directly when deserialized. All applications which rely on serialization and do not isolate the code which deserializes objects were subject to this vulnerability.

References (16)

Core 16
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2596
Broken Link vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0868
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2486
Broken Link vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0272.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95429
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039600
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-01

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.2432
EPSS Percentile 96.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-502
Status published
Products (4)
apache/groovy 1.7.0 - 2.4.3
org.codehaus.groovy/groovy 1.7.0 - 2.4.8Maven
org.codehaus.groovy/groovy-all 1.7.0 - 2.4.8Maven
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 7.0
Published Jan 18, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026