Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-1000027
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"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",
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