Apache Tika allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2016-6809 · GHSA-j8g6-2wh7-6439 · Published 06/04/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-6809 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting org.apache.tika:tika-core, nutch (apache), tika (apache).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 8.0%, higher than 94.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.14 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
org.apache.tika:tika-core Maven	`< 1.14`	`1.14`
nutch apache	`= 2.3.1`	No fix yet
tika apache	`≤ 1.13`	No fix yet

Description

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.

NVD description

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.

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