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high 7.5

CVE-2016-6497 json

main/java/org/apache/directory/groovyldap/LDAP.java in the Groovy LDAP API in Apache allows attackers to conduct LDAP entry poisoning attac…

published 2017-01-18 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-7419

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.7%
EPSS 5.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

main/java/org/apache/directory/groovyldap/LDAP.java in the Groovy LDAP API in Apache allows attackers to conduct LDAP entry poisoning attacks by leveraging setting returnObjFlag to true for all search methods.

Patch / fix

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-2016-6497 updated cvss 7.5

groovy: allows attackers to conduct LDAP entry poisoning attacks by leveraging setting returnObjFlag to true for all search methods

  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 groovy Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 groovy Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 groovy Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 groovy Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 camel Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 groovy
    +1 more products
    Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 groovy
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 groovy, groovy-javadoc Red Hat Fuse 7 camel Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 camel Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/ose-logging-elasticsearch5 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-logging-elasticsearch5
    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

5.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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