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CVE-2016-6809
Apache Tika before 1.14 allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files. The issue exists because Tika invokes…
Critical9.8EPSS 8.0%
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- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.0% · top 5.2% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.tika:tika-coreGHSA-j8g6-2wh7-6439 (opens in a new tab)
References (8)
- 94247 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tika/CHANGES-1.14.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Nov/40 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [lucene-dev] 20190325 Re: 6.6.6 Release (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [nutch-dev] 20191014 [SECURITY] Nutch 2.3.1 affected by downstream dependency CVE-2016-6809 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [nutch-user] 20191014 [SECURITY] Nutch 2.3.1 affected by downstream dependency CVE-2016-6809 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [lucene-issues] 20200815 [jira] [Commented] (SOLR-11486) CVE-2016-6809: Upgrade TIKA (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [lucene-issues] 20200816 [jira] [Issue Comment Deleted] (SOLR-11486) CVE-2016-6809: Upgrade TIKA (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-j8g6-2wh7-6439 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .