CVE-2016-6809
highpriority · track · 42EPSS 0.080 · 95 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Apache Tika before 1.14 allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files. The issue exists because Tika invokes JMatIO to do native deserialization.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8
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affected products (4)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-j8g6-2wh7-6439Apache Tika allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files2018-10-17ghsa · osvUS
Apache Tika before 1.14 allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files. The issue exists because Tika invokes JMatIO to do native deserialization.
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references (25)
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- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Nov/40cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94247cnnvd
- https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tika/CHANGES-1.14.txtcnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/91eb639ef619b9a26b40020ca6732e7dbe457f7322ed5f1df49e411a@%3Cdev.nutch.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d2375da29d89e679abf5d845db76d6f798fdc6f7d44f2c788e8a0fb9@%3Cuser.nutch.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e414754a6c57ce7194b731e211cd6b2cbb41f2c7000e3fb9c6b6ec78@%3Cdev.lucene.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2f6f6c130b12b7332f323f74d031072b1517065ce28a22346791ffb6@%3Cissues.lucene.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfd3646bb724b66b1a9ddef69e692da2b7a727a8799551c78eedf0a0f@%3Cissues.lucene.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
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