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CVE-2016-2510
BeanShell (bsh) before 2.0b6, when included on the classpath by an application that uses Java serialization or XStream, allows remote…
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 70.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 49 days later
· 49 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 70.4% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache-extras.beanshell:bshGHSA-gxg6-rc6c-v673 (opens in a new tab)
References
19
- RHSA-2016:2035 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 84139 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1135 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0540 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1376 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0788 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0539 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3504 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1035440 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0833 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2923-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- GLSA-201607-17 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:1545 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/frohoff/ysoserial/pull/13 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/beanshell/beanshell/commit/7c68fde2d6fc65e362f20863d868c112a90a9b49 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/beanshell/beanshell/commit/1ccc66bb693d4e46a34a904db8eeff07808d2ced (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/beanshell/beanshell/releases/tag/2.0b6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.rsaconference.com/writable/presentations/file_upload/asd-f03-serial-killer-silently-pwning-your-java-endpoints.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-4031 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-gxg6-rc6c-v673 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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