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CVE-2016-6809

Published: 6 April 2017

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
introduced in tika 1.6

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
tika
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (1.14)
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

xenial Not vulnerable
(pre-1.6)
yakkety Not vulnerable
(pre-1.6)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H