CVE catalog
CVE-2016-6814
groovy: CVE-2016-6814
- Severity
- Critical · CVSS 9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 17.24% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | groovy | sid | 2.4.21-13 | fixed |
| Debian | groovy | forky | 2.4.21-12 | fixed |
| Debian | groovy | trixie | 2.4.21-10 | fixed |
| Debian | groovy | bookworm | 2.4.21-8 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | groovy2 | pro | 2.4.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | groovy2 | pro | 2.4.3+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | groovy2 | pro | 2.4.5-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | groovy2 | pro | 2.4.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | groovy2 | pro | 2.4.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | groovy2 | pro | 2.4.3+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | groovy2 | pro | 2.4.5-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | groovy2 | pro | 2.4.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | groovy | 16.04 | 2.0.0~beta2+isreally1.8.6-4ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | groovy | source | sid | 2.4.8-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [851408] |
| Debian | groovy | source | forky | 2.4.8-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [851408] |
| Debian | groovy | source | trixie | 2.4.8-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [851408] |
| Debian | groovy | source | bookworm | 2.4.8-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [851408] |
| Ubuntu | groovy2 | deb | pro | 2.4.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | Not reported | USN-4795-1 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | groovy2 | deb | pro | 2.4.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6814 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [groovy]Fixed
Details (2)
2.4.21-8· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.4.8-1dsa · groovy · debian · bookworm; dsa · groovy · debian · 12
2.4.21-8· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.4.8-1dsa · groovy · debian · bookworm; dsa · groovy · debian · 12
- [groovy-doc]Fixed
Source package: [groovy]
Details (2)
2.4.21-8· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.4.8-1dsa · groovy · debian · bookworm; dsa · groovy · debian · 12
2.4.21-8· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.4.8-1dsa · groovy · debian · bookworm; dsa · groovy · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [groovy]Fixed
Details (2)
2.4.21-10· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2.4.8-1dsa · groovy · debian · 13
2.4.21-10· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2.4.8-1dsa · groovy · debian · 13
- [groovy-doc]Fixed
Source package: [groovy]
Details (2)
2.4.21-10· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2.4.8-1dsa · groovy · debian · 13
2.4.21-10· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2.4.8-1dsa · groovy · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/rhsa-2017_2486.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6814]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-794-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6814]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-4795-1]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6814]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2016/cve-2016-6814.json]
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