Critical
libcommons-collections3-java, libcommons-collections4-java — security advisory
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.x; BPM Suite (BPMS) 6.x; BRMS 6.x and 5.x; Data Grid (JDG) 6.x; Data Virtualization (JDV) 6.x and 5.x; Enterprise Application Platform 6.x, 5.x, and 4.3.x; Fuse 6.x; Fuse Service Works (FSW) 6.x; Operations Network (JBoss ON) 3.x; Portal 6.x; SOA Platform (SOA-P) 5.x; Web Server (JWS) 3.x; Red Hat OpenShift/xPAAS 3.x; and Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.3 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object, related to the Apache Commons Collections (ACC) library.
- Products
- libcommons-collections3-java, libcommons-collections4-java
- Affected versions
- 3.2.1-5build1, 3.2.1-6, 3.2.1-6ubuntu0.1~esm1, 3.2.1-8, 3.2.2-1, 4.0-1, 4.1-1, 4.2-1, 4.2-1~18.04, 4.4-2
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2015-7501
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.x; BPM Suite (BPMS) 6.x; BRMS 6.x and 5.x; Data Grid (JDG) 6.x; Data Virtualization (JDV) 6.x and 5.x; Enterprise Application Platform 6.x, 5.x, and 4.3.x; Fuse 6.x; Fuse Service Works (FSW) 6.x; Operations Network (JBoss ON) 3.x; Portal 6.x; SOA Platform (SOA-P) 5.x; Web Server (JWS) 3.x; Red Hat OpenShift/xPAAS 3.x; and Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.3 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object, related to the Apache Commons Collections (ACC) library.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7501
libcommons-collections3-java
Fixed versions: Not specified
libcommons-collections3-java
Fixed versions: Not specified
libcommons-collections4-java
Fixed versions: Not specified
libcommons-collections4-java
Fixed versions: Not specified
libcommons-collections4-java
Fixed versions: Not specified
libcommons-collections4-java
Fixed versions: Not specified
libcommons-collections4-java
Fixed versions: Not specified
libcommons-collections4-java
Fixed versions: Not specified
libcommons-collections4-java
Fixed versions: Not specified
libcommons-collections4-java
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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