CVE-2015-6420 (GCVE-0-2015-6420)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-12-15 02:00
Modified
2026-10-07 17:55
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
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.
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