CVE-2016-8749
highpriority · track · 43EPSS 0.106 · 96 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
Apache Camel's Jackson and JacksonXML unmarshalling operation are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution attacks.
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
weaknesses
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affected products (19)
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- Apache Software Foundation Apache Camel≤ The unsupported Camel 2.x (2.14 and earlier) versions may be also affected.enisa_euvdEU
advisories (1)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- GHSA-vvjc-q5vr-52q6Apache Camel's Jackson and JacksonXML unmarshalling operation are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution attacks2018-10-16ghsa · osvUS
Apache Camel's camel-jackson and camel-jacksonxml components are vulnerable to Java object de-serialisation vulnerability. Camel allows to specify such a type through the 'CamelJacksonUnmarshalType' property. De-serializing untrusted data can lead to security flaws as demonstrated in various similar reports about Java de-serialization issues. Mitigation: 2.16.x users should upgrade to 2.16.5, 2.17.x users should upgrade to 2.17.5, 2.18.x users should upgrade to 2.18.2. The JIRA tickets: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-10567 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-10604 refers to the various commits that resovoled the issue, and have more details.
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references (21)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://camel.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2016-8749.txt.asc?version=2&modificationDate=1486565034000&api=v2cnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/22/2cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97179cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1832cnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2318d7f7d87724d8716cd650c21b31cb06e4d34f6d0f5ee42f28fdaf@%3Ccommits.camel.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b4014ea7c5830ca1fc28edd5cafedfe93ad4af2d9e69c961c5def31d@%3Ccommits.camel.apache.org%3Ecnnvd
- https://www.github.com/mbechler/marshalsec/blob/master/marshalsec.pdf?raw=truecnnvd
- http://camel.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2016-8749.txt.asc?version=2&modificationDate=1486565034000&api=v2enisa_euvd
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