vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4795-1 (CVE-2016-6814): Apache Groovy vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 18, 2018
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-groovy2
Title
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