Vulnerabilities / CVE-2015-6420

critical

CVE-2015-6420

Insecure Deserialization in Apache Commons Collection

Published Modified CWE 502
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by GHSA (high).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavencommons-collections:commons-collections, net.sourceforge.collections:collections-generic, org.apache.commons:commons-collections4 and 2 more3.2.2 and 1 more
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SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavencommons-collections:commons-collections3.2.2
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavennet.sourceforge.collections:collections-genericno fix listed
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.commons:commons-collections44.1
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.servicemix.bundles:org.apache.servicemix.bundles.collections-genericno fix listed
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.servicemix.bundles:org.apache.servicemix.bundles.commons-collectionsno fix listed

References

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