CVE-2016-6814

CRITICAL

Apache Groovy < 2.4.3 - Insecure Deserialization

Title source: rule

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.2571
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

Classification

CWE
CWE-502
Status published

Affected Products (4)

apache/groovy < 2.4.3
redhat/enterprise_linux_server
org.codehaus.groovy/groovy < 2.4.8Maven
org.codehaus.groovy/groovy-all < 2.4.8Maven

Timeline

Published Jan 18, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026