FKIE_CVE-2015-6420
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2015-12-15 05:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:30
Severity
Summary
Serialized-object interfaces in certain Cisco Collaboration and Social Media; Endpoint Clients and Client Software; Network Application, Service, and Acceleration; Network and Content Security Devices; Network Management and Provisioning; Routing and Switching - Enterprise and Service Provider; Unified Computing; Voice and Unified Communications Devices; Video, Streaming, TelePresence, and Transcoding Devices; Wireless; and Cisco Hosted Services products allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object, related to the Apache Commons Collections (ACC) library.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | commons_collections | * | |
| apache | commons_collections | 4.0 |
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