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Fencer Intel
high 8.1

CVE-2016-2510 in the critical feed json

Improper Input Validation in BeanShell

published 2016-04-07 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-gxg6-rc6c-v673 , EUVD-2022-4031

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
70.4%
EPSS 70.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache-extras.beanshell:bsh 2.0b6
  • bsh Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.0b4-16

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2510

  • bsh Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.0b4-15ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2510

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • bsh2 SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 2.0-318.1
  • bsh2 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP1, SLE Software Development Kit 12 2.0.0.b5-3.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:0699-1SUSE-SU-2016:0700-1

  • bsh2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.0.0.b6-2.7

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10420-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-2510 updated cvss 7.4

bsh2: remote code execution via deserialization

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 BusinessCentral BusinessCentral
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 jbossas jbossas
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 BusinessCentral BusinessCentral Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 camel
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.3.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1545
  • Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0539
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0540
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1135
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2035
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  • Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1376
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 bsh2 bsh2 Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 Core Server Core Server
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

70.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/frohoff/ysoserial/pull/13 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • rsaconference.com https://www.rsaconference.com/writable/presentations/file_upload/asd-f03-serial-killer-silently-pwning-your-java-endpoints.pdf referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache-extras.beanshell:bsh
<2.0b6
2.0b6

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-19 Data Processing Errors
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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