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GSD-2015-6420

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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.

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CVE-2015-6420

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CVE-2015-6420 (GCVE-0-2015-6420)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-15 02:00 – Updated: 2026-10-07 17:55

Summary

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-07 17:55 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Assigner

cisco CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 66/100 over 377 records in the last 180 days details

References

12 references

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http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/Ci…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78872	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-23	x_refsource_MISC
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/publ…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/581311	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-14	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r352e40ca987…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/576313
https://foxglovesecurity.com/2015/11/06/what-do-w…
https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache_c…

Date Public

2015-12-09 00:00

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