CVE-2016-2510

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 70.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-04-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-19

Description

BeanShell (bsh) before 2.0b6, when included on the classpath by an application that uses Java serialization or XStream, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized data, related to XThis.Handler.

Affected products

Beanshell: 1.0, 2.0-beta1, 2.0-beta4, 2.0-beta5
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00056.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00078.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0539.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0540.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2035.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3504
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84139
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035440
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2923-1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1135
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1376
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1545

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