CVE-2015-6420

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 15% (96th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2020-0464 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-6hgm-866r-3cjv (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 15%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
15%
EPSS %ILE
96th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
15% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

December 15, 2015

Last Modified

October 7, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Oct 31, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Patch available. Sources: cert.
Web page🟡 PoC Available

Vulnerability in Java Deserialization Affecting Cisco Products

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151209-java-deserialization
Web page

[R1] Cisco Security Manager and Prime LMS Java Deserialization Remote Code Execution - Research Advisory | Tenable®

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-23
Web page

[R1] Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal Java Deserialization Remote Code Execution - Research Advisory | Tenable®

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-14
CERT

VU#581311 - TP-Link EAP Controller lacks RMI authentication and is vulnerable to deserialization attacks

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/581311
Web page

PSIRT.COM — Product Security Incident Response Team

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78872

Patch Availability(5)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
mavencommons-collections:commons-collections @ 3.2.2 (fixes < 3.2.2)—ghsa
mavennet.sourceforge.collections:collections-generic—ghsa
mavenorg.apache.commons:commons-collections4 @ 4.1 (fixes < 4.1)—ghsa
mavenorg.apache.servicemix.bundles:org.apache.servicemix.bundles.collections-generic—ghsa
mavenorg.apache.servicemix.bundles:org.apache.servicemix.bundles.commons-collections—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(5 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(5)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
commons-collections:commons-collections1.0 ... 3.2.1 (12 versions)
  • every version up to 3.2.2: fixed in 3.2.2
—
net.sourceforge.collections:collections-generic—
  • every version through 4.0.1: no fix on record
—
org.apache.commons:commons-collections44.0
  • every version up to 4.1: fixed in 4.1
—
org.apache.servicemix.bundles:org.apache.servicemix.bundles.collections-generic—
  • every version through 4.01: no fix on record
—
org.apache.servicemix.bundles:org.apache.servicemix.bundles.commons-collections—
  • every version through 3.2.1: no fix on record
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 16× in last 7d / 52× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

  1. 2026-11-02 09:12 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 09:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hgm-866r-3cjv · GitHub severity HIGH
  3. 2026-11-01 10:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hgm-866r-3cjv · GitHub severity HIGH
  4. 2026-11-01 08:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hgm-866r-3cjv · GitHub severity HIGH
  5. 2026-11-01 08:48 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-31 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 15% · 96th percentile
  7. 2026-10-31 12:33 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-30 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 15% · 96th percentile
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  10. 2026-10-29 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 15% · 96th percentile
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  14. 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 15% · 96th percentile
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  20. 2026-10-24 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
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  22. 2026-10-23 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-21 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  2. 2026-10-21 04:13 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-20 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
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  9. 2026-10-17 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  10. 2026-10-17 10:43 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-16 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
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  13. 2026-10-15 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
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  15. 2026-10-14 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  16. 2026-10-14 08:42 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-13 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  18. 2026-10-12 20:50 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-12 01:14 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-11 13:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  21. 2026-10-10 19:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  22. 2026-10-09 20:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  23. 2026-10-08 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  24. 2026-10-07 23:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  25. 2026-10-07 18:40 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-07 18:02 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 9.8 CRITICAL
  27. 2026-10-07 18:01 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2015-6420?
CVE-2015-6420 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on December 15, 2015. 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;…
When was CVE-2015-6420 made public?
CVE-2015-6420 was made public on December 9, 2015: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Cisco Systems, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on December 15, 2015. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 7, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2015-6420 actively exploited?
CVE-2015-6420 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 15% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (96th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2015-6420?
CVE-2015-6420 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2015-6420?
A fix for CVE-2015-6420 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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