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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-1000027

Pivotal Spring Framework through 5.3.16 suffers from a potential remote code execution (RCE) issue if used for Java deserialization of untrusted data. Depending on how the library is implemented within a product, this issue may or not occur, and authentication may be required. NOTE: the vendor's position is that untrusted data is not an intended use case. The product's behavior will not be changed because some users rely on deserialization of trusted data.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:38 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2016-1000027

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Jan 2020, 23:15 UTC

Pivotal Spring Framework through 5.3.16 suffers from a potential remote code execution (RCE) issue if used for Java deserialization of untrusted data. Depending on how the library is implemented within a product, this issue may or not occur, and authentication may be required. NOTE: the vendor's position is that untrusted data is not an intended use case. The product's behavior will not be changed because some users rely on deserialization of trusted data.

osv:CVE-2016-1000027
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "Pivotal Spring Framework through 5.3.16 suffers from a potential remote code execution (RCE) issue if used for Java deserialization of untrusted data. Depending on how the library is implemented within a product, this issue may or not occur, and authentication may be required. NOTE: the vendor's position is that untrusted data is not an intended use case. The product's behavior will not be changed because some users rely on deserialization of trusted data.",
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      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000027",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230420-0009/",
        "https://spring.io/blog/2022/05/11/spring-framework-5-3-20-and-5-2-22-available-now",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-1000027",
        "https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/24434#issuecomment-579669626",
        "https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/24434#issuecomment-582313417",
        "https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/24434#issuecomment-744519525",
        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/distributedweaknessfiling/cvelist/master/2016/1000xxx/CVE-2016-1000027.json",
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