CVE-2016-6809

Apache Tika before 1.14 allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files. The issue exists because Tika invokes JMatIO to do native deserialization.

• CWE-502

• http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Nov/40Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94247Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tika/CHANGES-1.14.txtRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/91eb639ef619b9a26b40020ca6732e7dbe457f7322ed5f1df49e411a%40%3Cdev.nutch.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d2375da29d89e679abf5d845db76d6f798fdc6f7d44f2c788e8a0fb9%40%3Cuser.nutch.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e414754a6c57ce7194b731e211cd6b2cbb41f2c7000e3fb9c6b6ec78%40%3Cdev.lucene.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2f6f6c130b12b7332f323f74d031072b1517065ce28a22346791ffb6%40%3Cissues.lucene.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfd3646bb724b66b1a9ddef69e692da2b7a727a8799551c78eedf0a0f%40%3Cissues.lucene.apache.org%3E
• http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Nov/40Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94247Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tika/CHANGES-1.14.txtRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/91eb639ef619b9a26b40020ca6732e7dbe457f7322ed5f1df49e411a%40%3Cdev.nutch.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d2375da29d89e679abf5d845db76d6f798fdc6f7d44f2c788e8a0fb9%40%3Cuser.nutch.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e414754a6c57ce7194b731e211cd6b2cbb41f2c7000e3fb9c6b6ec78%40%3Cdev.lucene.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2f6f6c130b12b7332f323f74d031072b1517065ce28a22346791ffb6%40%3Cissues.lucene.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfd3646bb724b66b1a9ddef69e692da2b7a727a8799551c78eedf0a0f%40%3Cissues.lucene.apache.org%3E

Published

Apr 6, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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