SCA: security update for commons-collections:commons-collections, org.apache.commons:commons-collections4 (GHSA-6hgm-866r-3cjv)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 411465

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2015-6420)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 411465

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 2/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-6420

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/15/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6420

BID: 78872

cwe: CWE-502

Detections

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