CVE-2016-1000027: VMware Spring Framework

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 33.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware Spring Framework: before 6.0.0 (fixed in 6.0.0)

Published 2020-01-02. Last modified 2026-10-07.