CVE-2015-6420
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 9.8 Critical
- Published
- Dec 15, 2015
- Updated
- Oct 7, 2026
- Reserved
- Aug 17, 2015
Description
Serialized-object interfaces in certain Cisco Collaboration and Social Media; Endpoint Clients and Client Software; Network Application, Service, and Acceleration; Network and Content Security Devices; Network Management and Provisioning; Routing and Switching - Enterprise and Service Provider; Unified Computing; Voice and Unified Communications Devices; Video, Streaming, TelePresence, and Transcoding Devices; Wireless; and Cisco Hosted Services products allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object, related to the Apache Commons Collections (ACC) library.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 9.8 Critical | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917
- 20151209 Vulnerability in Java Deserialization Affecting Cisco Productsvendor-advisory
- 78872vdb-entry
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-23
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722
- VU#581311third-party-advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-14
- [samza-commits] 20210310 [GitHub] [samza] Telesia opened a new pull request #1471: SAMZA-2630: Upgrade dependencies for security fixesmailing-list
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/576313
- https://foxglovesecurity.com/2015/11/06/what-do-weblogic-websphere-jboss-jenkins-opennms-and-your-application-have-in-common-this-vulnerability/
- https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache_commons_statement_to_widespread
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