Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-6809 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Apache Nutch and Tika

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
apache
CWE-502
critical
nessus
NVD
Published: 2017-04-06
Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Apache
25

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
NASL idFEDORA_2018-639385F5EC.NASL
descriptionUpdate to newer release of Tika including security fixes for CVE-2016-4434 and CVE-2016-6809. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
last seen2020-06-05
modified2019-01-03
plugin id120477
published2019-01-03
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120477
titleFedora 28 : tika (2018-639385f5ec)

Seebug

bulletinFamilyexploit
descriptionNo description provided by source.
idSSV:92547
last seen2017-11-19
modified2016-11-22
published2016-11-22
reporterfizz
titleApache Tika remote code execution vulnerability(CVE-2016-6809)

References