CVE-2016-6814 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2016-6814 Interim 1 4 2025-10-05T02:40:18Z current 2023-10-31T01:18:11Z 2025-10-05T02:40:18Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2016-6814 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. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings SUSE Liberty Linux 7 SUSE Liberty Linux 7 LTSS groovy-1.8.9-8.el7_4 groovy-javadoc-1.8.9-8.el7_4 groovy-1.8.9-8.el7_4 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 groovy-javadoc-1.8.9-8.el7_4 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 groovy-1.8.9-8.el7_4 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 LTSS groovy-javadoc-1.8.9-8.el7_4 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 LTSS 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. CVE-2016-6814 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:groovy-1.8.9-8.el7_4 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:groovy-javadoc-1.8.9-8.el7_4 SUSE Liberty Linux 7 LTSS:groovy-1.8.9-8.el7_4 SUSE Liberty Linux 7 LTSS:groovy-javadoc-1.8.9-8.el7_4 critical 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H